The Years of Lyndon Johnson (v.3)

This is the third part of Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson, which began with "The Path to Power" and "Means of Ascent". At the heart of "Master of the Senate" is its revelation of how legislative power works, how the US Senate works, how Lyndon Johnson on his way to the presidency mastered both and how he used his power to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since 1868. Interweaving his narrative of Johnson's political career during the 1950s with concise and acute history of the Senate, Caro shows us: how Johnson, employing his guile, his unerring instinct about his colleagues and his strategic brilliance, became Majority Leader after only one term, and soon the most powerful man in the Senate; how the youngest and greatest Senate leader changed the "unchangeable" Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a tightly run legislative machine; how he destroyed the one man who threatened the monetary invincibility of the Texas oil barons who had financed Johnson's rise to power; and how Johnson changed the course of Civil Rights in America.

ISBN 0224062875   Pages 1200 ISBN13 9780224062879 (What's this?)   Part volume Master of the Senate Publisher Vintage   Weight (grammes) 1758 Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd   Published in London Format Hardback   Previous ISBN 9780394528366 Publication date 22 Aug 2002   Height (mm) 242 DEWEY 973.923092   Width (mm) 169 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

Book Three in Caro's monumental life of Lyndon Johnson - the most admired and riveting political biography of our era - which began with the bestselling and prize-winning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

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