Working: researching, interviewing, writing

"Turn every page"

Robert Moses

The city-shaper

Carbon footprint

Sanctum sanctorum for writers

Lyndon Johnson

LBJA

"Why can't you do a biography of Napoleon?"

Interviewing

"I lied under oath": Luis Salas

"Hell, no, he's not dead": Vernon Whiteside

"It's all there in black and white": Ella So Relle

"I wanted to be a citizen": Margaret and David Frost

"My eyes were just out on stems": Lady Bird Johnson

Tricks of the trade

A sense of place

Two songs

The Paris review interview.