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Master of the Senate
  • Published: 4 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9781847926135
  • Imprint: Bodley Head
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 1200
  • RRP: $89.99
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Master of the Senate

The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 3)

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Reissued as a Bodley Head trade paperback, the third instalment of 'the greatest biography of our era' The Times

'The greatest biography of our era . Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The Times

Robert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of twentieth-century America.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Master of the Senate takes Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics, by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody of itself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperately needed liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson's brilliance, charm and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and most powerful Majority Leader in history and how he used his incomparable legislative genius - seducing both Northern liberals and Southern conservatives - to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction.
  • Published: 4 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9781847926135
  • Imprint: Bodley Head
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 1200
  • RRP: $89.99
Categories:

About the author

Robert A. Caro

Robert A. Caro graduated from Princeton University, later became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and was for six years an investigative reporter for Newsday. His first book, THE POWER BROKER, won the Pulitzer Prize in biography and the Frances Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. Both The PATH TO POWER and MEANS OF ASCENT won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Also by Robert A. Caro

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The Power Broker
The Passage of Power
Means of Ascent
The Path to Power
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