Synopsis
The third volume of Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson tells of his role as leader of the United Sates Senate. Caro explicates Johnson's deft use of power, which included cajoling, deal-making, and even intimidation. Johnson made history when he craftily built a coalition of Northern and Southern Democrats that successfully passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957--the first act of its kind since Reconstruction. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2002-03-01 | | Narrated by: | Grover Gardner | | Edition Description: | Unabridged |
Industry Reviews
"Combining the best techniques of investigative reporting with majestic storytelling ability, [Caro] has created a vivid, revelatory institutional history as well as a rich hologram of Johnson's career."
New York Times - Jill Abramson (04/24/2002)
"Caro has done something impressive: he has turned a history of parliamentary jockeying into a gripping tale of suspense. The narrative tension rarely dissipates through a thousand-plus pages...."
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) - Jordan Rau (04/28/2002)
"[A] wonderful, a glorious tale. The book reads like a Trollope novel, but not even Trollope explored the ambitions and the gullibilities of men as deliciously as Robert Caro does. I laughed often as I read. And even though I knew what the outcome of a particular episode would be, I followed Caro's account of it with excitement. I went back over chapters to make sure I had not missed a word. [An] amazing book."
New York Times Book Review - Anthony Lewis (04/28/2002)
"In many ways Johnson's personality--so outsized and contradictory as to be cognitively uncontainable--gets in the way of this compulsively readable story, which is about how power is exercised in this country."
Nation - Eric Alterman (05/06/2002)
"Caro has the strengths of an investigative reporter, which is what he was, at the Long Island daily Newsday, before he embarked on biography. He is a tireless researcher and has a nose for the neglected detail and the buried story. But he also has an investigative reporter's weaknesses: a determination to 'get the goods' on his subject...."
Atlantic Monthly - Ronald Steel
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