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Also by Robert A. Caro:

The Passage of Power, May 2013
Paperback / e-Book
The Passage Of Power, May 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Master Of The Senate, May 2002
Hardcover / e-Book
Means Of Ascent, March 1990
Hardcover
The Path To Power, February 1990
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Extraordinary Lives, September 1988
Paperback
The Power Broker, July 1975
Paperback

MEANS OF ASCENT
By: Robert A. Caro

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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