A lot like the people he has written about …

… Against the Great Man Theory of Historians. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 In the thrall of exposing power and its machinations, he has felt himself compelled to keep following the story, to go ever deeper, do the next interview, order up the next batch of documents from the archivist. “Turn every page. Never assume anything, turn every goddamned page,” Caro’s editor at Newsday told him when he was a young reporter just beginning to discover the frisson of investigative work. Caro took those words to heart.

Actually, Caro comes off as honest even if falling a little short on introspection. He certainly gets the job done.