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The Years Of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 2
Knopf
March 1990
On Sale: March 7, 1990
Featuring: Lyndon Baines Johnson
560 pages ISBN: 0394528352 EAN: 9780394528359 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with
the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the
National Book Critics Circle Award, continues -- one of the
richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever
undertaken of an American President. In Means of Ascent the
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer/historian, chronicler also
of Robert Moses in The Power Broker, carries Johnson through
his service in World War II and the foundation of his
long-concealed fortune and the facts behind the myths he
created about it. But the explosive heart of the book is
Caro's revelation of the true story of the fiercely
contested 1948 senatorial election, for forty years shrouded
in rumor, which Johnson had to win or face certain political
death, and which he did win -- by "the 87 votes that changed
history." Caro makes us witness to a momentous turning point
in American politics: the tragic last stand of the old
politics versus the new -- the politics of issue versus the
politics of image, mass manipulation, money and electronic
dazzle.
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