On the personification of power and what it means to be a good writer

This is a featured piece on Robert Caro, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and autobiographer of Lyndon Johnson.  Johnson, while in the Senate was the practitioner of power par excellence.  That's power as in "power over."  It's a good read for a slow Sunday.  And it makes one wonder whether the gridlock we see in Congress today is because there is nobody of Johnson's ilk anymore.