I was clued into this documentary about Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb by a friend and fellow history nerd and I’m so glad I was; watching the Bobs on screen would be a treat in even the most perfunctory recording, but this careful investigation into their history and methods is simply lovely.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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