In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. "The book races at Johnson's own whirlwind pace. Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age.â The Passage of Power, volume four, has been called âShakespearean . . A monument of interpretive biography." This fascinating, immensely long and highly readable book is the fullest account we haveâand are ever likely to haveâof the early years of LBJ." #digital-dash-create #digital-dash-create-success-message{display:none}#digital-dash-create #digital-dash-create-error-message{display:none}#digital-dash-create.success #digital-dash-create-success-message{display:block}#digital-dash-create.success .digital-dash-create-button{display:none}#digital-dash-create.error #digital-dash-create-error-message{display:block}#digital-dash-create #digital-dash-create-success-changeover .a-changeover-inner{width:25rem;margin-left:-12.5rem}#actionPanel #toggleBuyBox #digital-dash-create-high-prominence .a-button-text.a-text-left{text-align:center!important}.digital-dash-ilm-boundary{margin:-1.2rem -1.4rem 0}.digital-dash-ilm-wrapper{width:320px;height:45px;overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;margin-top:-13px}.digital-dash-ilm-button-outer-wrapper{position:absolute;top:10px;right:19px;-webkit-border-radius:43%/100%;-moz-border-radius:43%/100%;-ms-border-radius:43%/100%;border-radius:43%/100%;border:solid #879495 1px;background:#a9b6b7;padding:2px}.digital-dash-ilm-button-image{-webkit-border-radius:43%/100%;-moz-border-radius:43%/100%;-ms-border-radius:43%/100%;border-radius:43%/100%}.digital-dash-ilm-button-wrapper{position:absolute;top:8px;left:83px;background:#eaeded;background:-webkit-linear-gradient(45deg,#eaeded 0,#fff 100%);background:-moz-linear-gradient(45deg,#eaeded 0,#fff 100%);background:linear-gradient(45deg,#eaeded 0,#fff 100%);-webkit-border-radius:50%/50%;-moz-border-radius:50%/50%;-ms-border-radius:50%/50%;border-radius:50%;border:2px solid #ced6d7;width:33%;height:73%}.digital-dash-ilm-text{height:34px;width:146px;margin-top:8px;text-align:right;font-size:13px;line-height:17px}.digital-dash-ilm-text-first-line{color:#3e4546}.digital-dash-ilm-text-second-line{color:#fb0567} By Robert A. Caro. But none the less,his rise to power is no less fascinating the two Presidents who came before and after LBJ. Newsweek A brief review cannot convey the depth, range and detail of this fascinating story. For understanding our recent past and the men and policies that brought the country to its present condition and aimed us toward whatever our future is to be, it's an immensely important work." Johnson bullying, cajoling, lying, yet inspiring an amazing loyalty . The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a compact library: brilliant biography, gripping history, searing political drama and an incomparable study of power. In fact, maybe too much. "By every measureâdepth of research, brilliance of conception, the seamless flow of the proseâit is a masterpiece of biography." A lot of pages and a lot of interesting information about a man who while certainly flawed in many ways ended up doing a lot of good as President. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnsonâs political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered. }); Raised on a bleak,isolated Texas Farm, Lyndon B John,wanted nothing more then to break of this poverty and make something of himself. Eventually, I had to bite the bullet. Mr. Caro does an exhaustive amount of research for all of his books. Lyndon Baines Johnson (/ Ë l ɪ n d É n Ë b eɪ n z /; August 27, 1908 â January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969, and previously as 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963. .qs-slider-button-group{width:112px}.qs-slider-atc-button{width:110px}.qs-slider-button-group>.qs-decrease-quantity{width:38px}.qs-slider-button-group>.qs-decrease-quantity .qs-decrease-quantity-text{pointer-events:none}.qs-slider-button-group>.qs-increase-quantity{width:38px}.qs-slider-button-group>.qs-increase-quantity .qs-increase-quantity-text{pointer-events:none}.qs-slider-button-group>.qs-qty-present-in-cart{width:36px;border-color:#adb1b8 #a2a6ac #8d9096!important}.qs-slider-button-group>.qs-qty-present-in-cart .qs-qty-present-in-cart-native{background-color:#fff}.qs-slider-spinner{position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;margin:auto;pointer-events:none}.a-no-js .qs-slider-button{display:none}.a-no-js .qs-add-to-cart-button{display:block!important;visibility:visible!important} For example, Robert Caro spends the first 5 or so chapters of the book going through the Johnson family history and the history of the Hill Country, which gives the reader a more complete picture of Johnson growing up. #preRegistration-container .a-icon{display:none}#preRegistration-container.inline-popup-link .a-checkbox{padding-right:4px}#preRegistration-container.inline-popup-link .a-checkbox-label{display:inline;padding-left:0}#preRegistration-container .preRegistration-popup-link{position:relative}#preRegistration-alert-container #preregistrationGiftingAlert{padding-left:4px}#preRegistration-alert-container #preregistrationQuantityAlert{padding-left:4px}#gifting-option-container{margin-bottom:0} EDITED - Superb book - but avoid the Pimlico paperback. It is one of the finest biographies that I have ever read and a revealing insight into the early years of LBJ. * To view and modify this theme, visit http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/?ffDefault=Trebuchet%20MS%2CTahoma%2CVerdana%2CArial%2Csans-serif&fwDefault=bold&fsDefault=1.1em&cornerRadius=4px&bgColorHeader=f6a828&bgTextureHeader=gloss_wave&bgImgOpacityHeader=35&borderColorHeader=e78f08&fcHeader=ffffff&iconColorHeader=ffffff&bgColorContent=eeeeee&bgTextureContent=highlight_soft&bgImgOpacityContent=100&borderColorContent=dddddd&fcContent=333333&iconColorContent=222222&bgColorDefault=f6f6f6&bgTextureDefault=glass&bgImgOpacityDefault=100&borderColorDefault=cccccc&fcDefault=1c94c4&iconColorDefault=ef8c08&bgColorHover=fdf5ce&bgTextureHover=glass&bgImgOpacityHover=100&borderColorHover=fbcb09&fcHover=c77405&iconColorHover=ef8c08&bgColorActive=ffffff&bgTextureActive=glass&bgImgOpacityActive=65&borderColorActive=fbd850&fcActive=eb8f00&iconColorActive=ef8c08&bgColorHighlight=ffe45c&bgTextureHighlight=highlight_soft&bgImgOpacityHighlight=75&borderColorHighlight=fed22f&fcHighlight=363636&iconColorHighlight=228ef1&bgColorError=b81900&bgTextureError=diagonals_thick&bgImgOpacityError=18&borderColorError=cd0a0a&fcError=ffffff&iconColorError=ffd27a&bgColorOverlay=666666&bgTextureOverlay=diagonals_thick&bgImgOpacityOverlay=20&opacityOverlay=50&bgColorShadow=000000&bgTextureShadow=flat&bgImgOpacityShadow=10&opacityShadow=20&thicknessShadow=5px&offsetTopShadow=-5px&offsetLeftShadow=-5px&cornerRadiusShadow=5px It should go without saying by now that the book is quite astoundingly well researched and grippingly written. It's not a quick read, but well worth it! 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The New York Times We see him at once unscrupulous, admirable, treacherous, devoted. â I value my books, take care of them and often re-read them or refer to them for reference again and again. In light of the new PBS âVietnamâ, I am re-reading the 4 volume set of Robert Caroâs LBJ biographies to gain a better perspective of LBJ and the politics of the years before Vietnam. Johnson's consuming desire to get ahead and his political genius "unencumbered by philosophy or ideology" are staggering. president herbert hoover had them moved by the army at the points of fixed bayonets and tear gas. Here, Johnson's almost mythic personality--part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating--is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. Brilliant . Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2019, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2013, a great biography of Lyndon Johnson's first 31 years, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 1, 2013, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 18, 2015. Pimlico: Bad - Bodley Head: Good. . 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Lyndon B Johnson's Presidency is often overlooked,since he has the distinction of being the President that followed Kennedy's Camelot and preceded Nixon's Watergate. 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