ojunk (Mike Weeks) wrote:
(Issac Goldberg) wrote:
Try reading the three volumes of Caro's LBJ biography,

Why?

To improve your rather limited knowledge of LBJ's background?

There appears to be a disagreement as to how much stock one should place
in what Caro writes in anycase.

There was no disagreement as to who won the Pulitzer prize for
biography last year. It was Robert Caro. And it was for his book
"Master of the Senate," the third volume of his LBJ biography.

start
[author] Rbt. Dallek: You know I'm writing this two-volume biography [on LBJ],
and--
McNamara: I'm glad somebody other than [Robert] Caro is writing it. ...
...
D: He was important to this country. I feel I'm a special advocate because,
after all, I have a certain rivalry with Caro, so it's hard for me to be
objective. But I've found his work to be so biased and overblown. It seems to
me that you don't have to gild the lily if you want to put Lyndon Johnson in a
bad light; there is plenty there that can speak for itself, and plenty of
positive there that speaks for itself. But he is so inclined to beat on him
unmercifully.
M: He blew up Governor Coke Stevenson as a saint, which is absurd.
D: There was a review of his book in the _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_ which said,
"It takes the Catholic Church three hundred years to beatify a saint, but Caro
did it to Coke Stevenson in one chapter."
(Laughter)
end
From the LBJ Library; interview of McNamara - March 26, 1993.
MW

So what? Next you're going to tell us that LBJ was a saint.