A Civil War over Semicolons
By C.J. Hirschfield
(January 24, 2023)
“He does the work. I do the cleanup. And then we fight.”
This dynamic is the core of a dazzling new documentary about the 50-year working relationship between Pulitzer Prize- winning author Robert Caro (The Power Broker, The Years of Lyndon Johnson) and master editor Robert Gottlieb (Beloved, Catch-22, True Grit, The Chosen, etc. etc.).