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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 3)

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By (author): Robert A. Caro

The greatest biography of our era Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics The Times

Robert A. Caros legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of twentieth-century America.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Master of the Senate takes Johnsons story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 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 Johnsons 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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 1202g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Jul 2019
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781847926135

About Robert A. Caro

Robert A. Caro has been described as the greatest political biographer of our times (Sunday Times) and the most revered historian of his generation (New York Times). His first book The Power Broker published in 1974 was described in 2015 as one of the greatest non-fiction works ever written (Sunday Times) and his ongoing multi-volume work The Years of Lyndon Johnson has been described as the greatest biography of our era (The Times). With these books he has twice won the Pulitzer Prize twice won the National Book Award and three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also been awarded virtually every other major literary honour including the National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama the highest award in the humanities given in the United States. Born in 1935 he graduated from Princeton University later became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and was an investigative reporter for Newsday for six years. He lives with his wife the writer Ina Caro in New York City where he is at work on the fifth and final volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson.

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