The years of lyndon johnson

Robert Caro Books. Robert Caro is simply one of the greatest American historians. He has used libraries and archives extensively to paint the most vividly illuminating portrait of American politics and society in the 20th century through his biographies on Robert Moses and Lyndon B Johnson. Photo by Phil Penman. The Years of Lyndon Johnson. One of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American president.

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It is the magnum opus of a writer perfectly suited to his task. The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.

This multifaceted book carries the President-to-be from the aftermath of his devastating defeat in his campaign for the Senate-the despair it engendered in him, and the grueling test of his spirit that followed as political doors slammed shut-through his service in World War II and his artful embellishment of his record to the foundation of his fortune and the actual facts behind the myth he created about it.

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At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career— to It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him.

An unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about Robert A. In Working , he gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. The Power Broker.