Robert A. Caro
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Master of the Senate: Volume 3 of The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
- 2003 Pulitzer–Biography winner
- 2002 LATimes–Biography winner
- 2002 NBA–Nonfiction winner
- 2002 NBCC–Biography finalist
- Score: 36.53
Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.
Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. 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…
Means of Ascent: Volume 2 of The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
MEANS OF ASCENT is the second book in the LBJ trilogy. It carries Johnson from his 1941 Senate defeat through WW II and on to the securing of his fortunes, both economic and political.
Caro tells this story with an eye for detail. He focuses not only on Johnson, but on Johnson’s “unbeatable” opponent, former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson. As the political duel between the two men quickens, it moves with all the drama of the perfect Western. Caro has us witness a momentous turning point in American politics: the tragic last stand of politics of issue versus politics of image.
The Path to Power: Volume 1 of The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered. In this book, we are…
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
For the sheer magnitude, depth and authority of its revelations, The Power Broker stands alone—a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the virtually unknown saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power, but the hidden story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York through the past half-century.
Robert Caro’s monumental book makes public what few outsiders have known: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of our time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an…
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