Extraordinary lives
Subtitle: the art and craft of American biography
By: Robert A. Caro ... [et al.] ; edited by William Zinsser.
Contributors: Caro, Robert A.; Zinsser, William Knowlton.
Publisher: American Heritage; Distributed by Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Biography as a literary form; United States -- Biography
Notes: Bibliography: p. [233]-248.
Based on lectures given at the New York Public Library, winter 1985.
Table of contents: title: The unexpected Harry Truman / David McCullough; title: In search of Emily Dickinson / Richard B. Sewall; title: Living with Walter Lippmann / Ronald Steel; title: The Adams women / Paul C. Nagel; title: The real reasons / Jean Strouse; title: Lyndon Johnson and the roots of power / Robert A. Caro.