Read Robert Caro's "Working" in two sittings: his prose is as elegant as in his larger biographies but, perhaps in deference to the reportorial subject matter, the sentences are clipped in a more journalistic way, his ideas communicated in quick chapters that are both newslike in their efficiency and as evocative as a collection of masterful short stories. The book feels like a wonderfully personable aside from his more ambitious tomes.

this is a wonderful, personal view of how a great historian goes about his research and writing. A "must" addition to any writer's bookshelf - or that of anyone who has enjoyed Robert Caro's biographies of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses.