Means of Ascent
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In "Means of Ascent", Caro covers the years 1941-48, years in the wilderness for Johnson, who had been devastatingly defeated for the Senate in 1941, but years of fascination for the biographer and for anyone interested in the more extreme grotesqueries of American politics. For this is the period when…
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I loved the way Caro takes an enormous amount of detail from a portion of Lyndon Johnson's life and weaves it into a digestible -- albeit large -- depiction of the complexities that made Lyndon Johnson what David Halberstam called "a politician the like of which we shall not see again in this country."
Those who overestimate the reach of social science, and those who overestimate the extent to which statistical correlations can enlighten us, can be guilty of dismissing historians and biographers as people who traffic too extensively in anecdotal evidence. But when so many anecdotes are brought to…
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