I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. (Robert Caro)

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Robert Caro

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