The Passage of Power
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE
Book Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London…
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I’d of course heard about Caro’s opus for years and years and always figured it would be too boring to read that much about LBJ. I was so wrong!
I was finally moved to pick up the first book in his series after seeing Turn Every Page, the wonderful documentary about Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb. As a journalist myself I was astounded by the depth and detail of Caro’s reporting – and all that he uncovered about LBJ. What a psychopath who also made positive history – it’s easy to understand why Caro got so obsessed.
This…
Imagine you’re Vice President Lyndon Johnson on Nov. 22, 1963. The Secret Service just hustled you into a secure room at the Dallas hospital where doctors are desperately trying to keep President John F. Kennedy alive after an assassination attempt. What’s going through your mind? If Kennedy dies, what are your next steps? Robert Caro found out. Pulitzer-winner Caro is the greatest historian of our lifetime—and a brilliant, accessible writer who makes it impossible to put down a 700-page nonfiction book. The Passage of Power is the fourth of a planned five-volume biography of Johnson, the man who helped turn…
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