Ruth Scurr on the master biographer Robert A. Caro, whose subjects include Robert Moses, Lyndon B. Johnson and, now, himself; Dmitri Levitin talks us through Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, an eccentric and often inaccurate guide to early thinkers; Why bother with literary criticism? Whither this generation's Lionel Trilling? Michael LaPointe joins us to discuss
Working: Researching, interviewing, writing by Robert A. Caro
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius, translated by Pamela Mensch
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“It Is An Astonishment To Be Alive”
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Who Knows Where The Time Goes
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Beyond Flesh and Blood
Measuring Our Lives, One Reindeer At A Time
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United We Stand
If We Only Had Eyes To See
Marching To Their Own Tune
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