The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The path to power

ISBN-10: 039471654X
ISBN-13: 9780394716541
Series: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Category: JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES : BIOGRAPHY.
Pages: 882
Language: English
Published: 1983
Publisher: Vintage
Author: Robert A. Caro

Description

This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from Texas Hill Country. And, thanks to the narrative gifts of Robert Caro, we are beside Lyndon Johnson every step of the way - as he works on a road gang as a teenager; as he stands, gangling, awkward, terribly nervous on a wagon bed, begging Hill Country farmers to send him to Congress; as he suffers a heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate and, nonetheless, maneuvers himself into a position of power in Washington by the age of 31. In this riveting book, the first of three projected volumes on Johnson's life, we are brought as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and of the workings of the American political process.