Master of the Senate carries Johnson’s story through his twelve remarkable years in the Senate. National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography The explosive heart of the book is Caro’s revelation of the true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, which Johnson had to win or face certain political death, and which he did win-by “87 votes that changed history.” Caro makes us witness to a momentous turning point in American politics the tragic last stand of the old politics versus the new-the politics of issue versus the politics of image, mass manipulation, money and electronic dazzle. Means of Ascent follows Johnson through his service in World War II to the foundation of his long-concealed fortune and the facts behind the myth he created about it. National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson’s political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas Hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless of the national power for which he hungered. The Path to Power reveals the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart.

“One of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. Johnson, but there will never be another Robert A.

It’s true that there will never be another Lyndon B. A masterpiece, unlike any other work of American history published in the past. It’s his immense talent as a writer that has made his biography of Johnson one of America’s most amazing literary achievements. “By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen, Caro has forever changed the way we think, and read, American history. form a revealing prism by which to view the better part of a century in American life and politics during which the country experienced tumultuous and divisive social change.Gripping.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times It is the magnum opus of a writer perfectly suited to his task: the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer-historian, chronicler also of Robert Moses in The Power Broker, whose inspired research and profound understanding of the nature of ambition and the dynamics of power have made him a peerless explicator of political lives. Caro’s life of Lyndon Johnson is one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American president.

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The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro