![]() Caro (Author) 82 ratings Part of: The Years of Lyndon Johnson See all formats and editions Hardcover £130.11 2 Used from £139.99 1 New from £130. ![]() ![]() 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 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. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power Means of Ascent Master of the Senate The Passage of Power Hardcover 9 April 2013 by Robert A. Senate in 1941 'Means of Ascent,' a chronicle of Johnson's years from 1941 to his second (and ultimately successful) Senate run in 1948 and 'Master of the Senate,' the critically acclaimed narrative of LBJ's 12-year. 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. is currently made up of 'The Path to Power,' which covers LBJ's life from his birth in 1908 until his first run for the U.S. ![]() 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. ![]()
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