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The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1)
The Path to Power - The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1
Author: Robert A. Caro
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679729457
ISBN-10: 0679729453
Publication Date: 2/17/1990
Pages: 960
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4.5 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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The Path to Power (1982) covers Johnson's life up to his failed 1941 campaign for the United States Senate. It won a National Book Critics Circle Award, 1983, a Washington Monthly Best Political Book Award, 1983, and an H.L. Mencken Award,,,"
This is the first of 3 in print volumes of Johnson, there is a 4th volume in the works.
I have read all three, garnered many insights into the political nature of a man most American only remember for his landmark Civil Rights Laws and for being hounded from office over the Viet Nam war.
Caro's focus is political power, how it works, how it is used.
His first book was the Power Broker, a Pulitzer winning examination of Robert Moses in New York.

I strongly recommend reading all 3 of the Johnson volumes.
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Engossing book about a colorful president. Great depth.


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