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The power broker by robert a caro5/13/2023 “The stewardess conferred with the captain,” Caro said, “and they found us this little hotel in Paris.” When they boarded the plane, they didn’t even know where they were going to stay when they landed. The next day, Caro and his wife, Ina, packed their bags, drove to the airport, and bought two tickets to Paris. “How long does it take a check like this to clear?” he asked her. When the check from The New Yorker-which paid Caro more than he had been paid on the actual book-arrived in Nesbit’s mail, she called Caro to let him know. I didn’t excerpt it I condensed it.” Revisions went back and forth for weeks before Caro finally signed off on versions he could tolerate. And here’s why: He had expected excerpts, that I would take whole, coherent chapters the way he had written them. “Bob agreed to the deal, but he absolutely hated what I had done,” Whitworth said.
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