Author: Robert A. Caro
Year: 2002
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Biographies, History, Award winners, Politics, Memoirs
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9780394720951
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The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues.
takes Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics, by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody of itself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperately needed liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson's brilliance, charm, and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and most powerful Majority Leader in history and how he used his incomparable legislative genius--seducing both Northern liberals and Southern conservatives--to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction. Brilliantly weaving rich detail into a gripping narrative, Caro gives us both a galvanizing portrait of Johnson himself and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings of legislative power.
This book is part of the "The Years of Lyndon Johnson" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Passage to Power"
First published in 2012
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 | "Means of Ascent"
First published in 1990
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 | "The Path to Power"
First published in 1982
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