- Published: 4 July 2019
- ISBN: 9781847926135
- Imprint: Bodley Head
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 1200
- RRP: $59.99
Master of the Senate
The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 3)
















- Published: 4 July 2019
- ISBN: 9781847926135
- Imprint: Bodley Head
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 1200
- RRP: $59.99
The greatest biography of our era … Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics
The Times
As if it were possible, Master of the Senate takes what was already an outstanding multi-volume series on to a still higher plane. It is, quite simply, the finest biography I have ever read, or ever could imagine reading. It is more than that: it is one of the finest works of literature I have ever encountered, or ever hope to
New Statesman
The breathtaking detail makes it impossible to put down
The Times
Dazzling ... awesome ... Rarely will you come across a more compelling account of the nature of great power and its entanglement with massive personality. Rarely will you find another biography which is such a fascinating study of how a bad man became a power for the good
Observer
A wonderful, a glorious tale … It will be hard to equal this amazing book … Caro’s description of how [Johnson passed the civil rights legislation] is masterly; I was there and followed the course of the legislation closely, but I did not know the half of it
New York Times Book Review
Quite breathtaking ... one of the great political biographies
Gordon Brown