<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Now, Esquire piece on Caro......cannot link, sorry.<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Monte Davis <montedavis@verizon.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Mark Kohut' <markekohut@yahoo.com>; 'pynchon -l' <pynchon-l@waste.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 12, 2012 3:56 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: NP but Caro<br> </font> </div> <br>
I have retold many times Caro's narration of LBJ working his colleagues on<br>the civil rights bill: telling Long and Russell and Stennis "I don't like it<br>any more than you do, but we have to give a little to Humphrey and the<br>red-hots"... then crossing the hall and telling Humphrey and Symington,<br>"Dick Russell and the rest of his goddamn redneck dinosaurs are starting to<br>move a bit, just follow my lead." <br><br>Those were all smart political craftsmen themselves, and they *knew exactly<br>what he was doing* -- but he worked the magic on them anyway. <br><br>--Original Message-----<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:owner-pynchon-l@waste.org" href="mailto:owner-pynchon-l@waste.org">owner-pynchon-l@waste.org</a> [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:owner-pynchon-l@waste.org" href="mailto:owner-pynchon-l@waste.org">owner-pynchon-l@waste.org</a>] On Behalf<br>Of Mark Kohut<br>Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 8:33 AM<br>To: pynchon -l<br>Subject: NP but
Caro<br><br>I had to drive for a couple days straight and I had a CD of Caro's Master of<br>the Senate. Even though this is abridged, the huge chunks on topics--the 57<br>Civil Rights bill movement--"we have to do something for the niggers"; Sam<br>Rayburn, lonely social misfit; the evil perpetrated on so many<br>African-Americans and the ways they could be kept from registering to vote;<br>Richard Russell, Southern institution & power broker, all show how right the<br>plisters are who praise this series. Thanks,Maligned. <br><br>And in volume the first,which I now have,the way he captured the meanings of<br>The Texas Hill Country--freed and trapped the settlers-- in his single<br>paragraph thematic headings is so artful.............. <br><br>And Caro suffered for his art, and fought for his truths.....<br>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/robert-caros-big-dig.html?_r=2<br><br>There is an excerpt from the new volume
about Johnson on assassination day<br>in the New Yorker, I hear. (Wish they had chosen another section but one can<br>see why not)<br><br>Johnson was both for his day and against the day. Shakespearean,yes. <br><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>