CARO A. ROBERT

(P/B) THE PASSAGE OF POWER
Hailed as 'the greatest biography of our era' (The Times) this is the fourth part of Robert Caro's monumental work on American President Lyndon Johnson. The Passage of Power, 'the series' crowning volume' (Economist), spans the years 1958 to 1964, arguably the most crucial years in the life of Johnson and pivotal years for American history. This era saw some of the most frustrating moments of Johnson's career, but also some of his most triumphant. His battle with the Kennedy brothers over the 1960 Democratic nomination for president was a ...
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(P/B) MEANS OF ASCENT
The second volume of Robert A. Caro's remarkable four-part biography of Lyndon Johnson In Means of Ascent, the Pulitzer award-wining historian carries Johnson through his service in World War II and the foundation and the myths of his long-concealed fortune. The explosive heart of the book is Caro's revelation of the true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, which Johnson won with the the '87 votes that changed history'. Caro makes us witness to a momentous turning point in American politics: the tragic last stand of t...
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(P/B) MASTER OF THE SENATE
The most riveting political biography of our time and winner of countless awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Critics Circle Award for Biography, this is the third volume in Robert Caro's magisterial biography of Lyndon Johnson. Master of the Senate takes Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 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 ...
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(P/B) THE PATH TO POWER
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country, and the first volume in Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson, hailed as 'the greatest biography of our era'. Revealed in extraordinary detail is the genesis of that almost superhuman drive, energy and ambition which set LBJ apart. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, The Path to Power charts his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as a Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his ...
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