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Attention LBJ nerds: Robert Caro is posting book updates on Instagram.

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Revisiting Vikram Chandra’s Ode to the Art of Human Coding in the Age of AI

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The Conveniences I Used to Write a Book About Inconvenience (Definitely Not AI)

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