![]() For him, the galleys are simply another stage of construction. In most cases, once a book reaches galleys - once it has been designed and typeset and a few preliminary copies printed, unbound - it is finished, or close to it. The seventy-six-year-old Caro has worked on this project nearly every day since 1974 he has been working on this particular volume for ten years. In front of him is a pile of white paper: the galleys for The Passage of Power, the fourth book in his enormous biography, The Years of Lyndon Johnson. His tie is still carefully knotted his hair is slicked back. CARO.īehind that door on this February morning, as on most mornings for the twenty-two years he has occupied this office, Caro is hunched over his desk. But one plaque displays only a name, with no mention of the man's business: ROBERT A. ![]() ![]() The plaques reveal the professions of the people at work behind them: lawyers, accountants, financial advisors. On the twenty-second floor of the Fisk Building in New York - an elegant brick giant built in 1921, stretching an entire block of West Fifty-seventh Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue - the hallways are lined with doors bearing gold plaques. Published in the May 2012 issue of Esquire, on sale soon I. ![]()
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