詹森總統傳 Robert Allan Caro 胡頌平 江勇振

我"年青時"不懂事   常勸人寫回憶錄  現在我才知道這是大工程 很少人做得成作得好的
然而 人生豈不是有夢想才美麗
今天紐約時報有篇詹森總統傳第四冊的書評 Book Review  注意此文之作者

Seat of Power  By BILL CLINTON

The fourth volume of Robert Caro’s series on Lyndon Johnson starts shortly before the 1960 election and ends a few months after John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

這種"史詩級"傳記作品 可能只有美國是樂土  美國或可說 "美國能 他國不能......"

我上Wikipedia查一下作者的前二段和著作史書目
Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He has since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a biography of the former president.

讀者可知   他每8-12出一本    此一傳記全五本總頁數  可能超過4000頁  完成時作者年齡說不定近90歲了

• Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power. 1982. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York. (ISBN 0394499735). xxiii + 882 p. + 48 p. of plates: illus.
• Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent. 1990. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York. (ISBN 0394528352). xxxiv + 506 pp.
• Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate. 2002. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York. (ISBN 0-394-52836-0). xxiv + 1167 pp.
• Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power. 2012. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York. (ISBN 978-0679405070). 752 pp.

在胡適傳記方面
胡頌平先生花廿多年寫 胡適之先生年譜長編初稿  +胡適之先生年晚年談話錄 1984  兩書約有四千五百4500多頁
江勇振先生的胡適傳的雄心  類似 Robert Allan Caro的詹森總統傳
2011年出版 第一部 : 璞玉成璧 【舍我其誰：胡適】 我們祝福他 (由於我也快成半個胡適專家 所以暫時不讀它 希望自己成一家 與他家平行發展    譬如說  我昨天指出胡適之先生年晚年談話錄 的一些錯誤 The Shorter Bible   或者朱權《太和正音譜》五行排行    或許這本書需要 hc 校注版 )