Bibliograph

The years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro, Vol. 1

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The years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro, Vol. 1

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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individual biography

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The years of Lyndon Johnson

Responsibility statement

Robert A. Caro

Summary

Robert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of twentieth-century America. This first instalment tells of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country, revealing in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy and ambition that set LBJ apart. It charts his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as a Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate and his attainment, nonetheless, at the age of thirty-one of the power for which he hungered

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Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1, The path to powerPath to power

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