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Give or take a year or two, his Moses book came out in 74, then his LBJ book
came out in 82.
Give me 8 years on one subject and I'll be an expert in quantum theory.
Unfortunately, my editors usually want to see a draft of a manuscript before
30 days.
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---------- Donkey
> Robert Caro won a Pulitzer prize for writing a biography of
> Robert Moses,
> which makes him an expert on the subject of Robert Moses.
> Later he wrote a
> biography of Lyndon Johnson which also won a Pulitzer prize.
>
> How could Caro manage to write well about LBJ, when he was an
> expert on Robert Moses, not on LBJ?
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