The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume I: The Path to Power
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Editorial: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982
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xxiii [1], , 882, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography, Notes. Index. Some DJ wear. Some edge soiling. This first volume of Caro's biography traces Johnson from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his defeat in his first race for the U.S. Senate. Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American author known for his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. Caro wrote The Power Broker, a biography of Robert Moses, which was chosen as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He has written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Mencken Award, and a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the early emergence of Johnson's political genius, it follows him to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington and to his attainment of national power. We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate, coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon, lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate impossible goal that he sets for himself. We watch him instinctively creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize useful subordinates. We see him carrying out his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable Mr. Sam Raybum and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters. Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner as the New Deal's connection in Texas, and seize the power himself. Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district's first electric lines. We see the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. Here is Lyndon Johnson, his Texas, his Washington, his America, in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.…
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- Título
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume I: The Path to Power
- Autor
- Caro, Robert A.
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York
- Año de publicación
- 1982
- Estado
- Very good
- Sobrecubierta
- Good
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 0394499735
- ISBN 13
- 9780394499734
- Ilustrador
- Arnold Newman (Author Photograph)
- Edición
- Book Club Edition.
- Serie
- Libro 1 de 4: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- Catálogos de vendedores
- Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. Congress, U.S. Presidents
The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson’s 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.
We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate—coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon—raised in one of the country’s most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father’s slide into failure and financial ruin—lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate “impossible” goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be.
We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates. We see him carrying out, before his thirtieth year, his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable “Mr. Sam” Raybum (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the intensities and complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters . . .
Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson bullying, cajoling, lying, yet inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner (then Vice President of the United States) as the New Deal’s “connection” in Texas, and seize the power himself . . . Johnson raging . . . Johnson hugging . . . Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district’s first electric lines.
We see him at once unscrupulous, admirable, treacherous, devoted. And we see the country that bred him: the harshness and “nauseating loneliness” of the rural life; the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. And always, in the foreground, on the move, LBJ.
Here is Lyndon Johnson—his Texas, his Washington, his America—in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.
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Caro’s first book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, everywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to David Halberstam, “Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” And The New York Times Book Review said: “In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.”
The first volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power, was cited by The Washington Post as “proof that we live in a great age of biography . . . [a book] of radiant excellence . . . Caro’s evocation of the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson’s unsleeping ambition, his understanding of how politics actually work, are—let it be said flat out—at the summit of American historical writing.” Professor Henry F. Graff of Columbia University called the second volume, Means of Ascent, “brilliant. No review does justice to the drama of the story Caro is telling, which is nothing less than how present-day politics was born.” The London Times hailed volume three, Master of the Senate, as “a masterpiece . . . Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age.” The Passage of Power, volume four, has been called “Shakespearean . . . A breathtakingly dramatic story [told] with consummate artistry and ardor” (The New York Times) and “as absorbing as a political thriller . . . By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen, Caro has forever changed the way we think about, and read, American history” (NPR). On the cover of The New York Times Book Review, President Bill Clinton praised it as “Brilliant . . . Important . . . Remarkable. With this fascinating and meticulous account Robert Caro has once again done America a great service.”
“Caro has a unique place among American political biographers,” The Boston Globe said . . . “He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured.” And Nicholas von Hoffman wrote: “Caro has changed the art of political biography.”
Born and raised in New York City, Caro graduated from Princeton University, was later a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and worked for six years as an investigative reporter for Newsday. He lives in New York City with his wife, Ina, the historian and writer.
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