Master of the Senate by Robert A Caro
Hailed as 'the greatest biography of our era' (The Times) this is the third part of Robert Caro's multi-award-winning best-selling work on American President Lyndon Johnson. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 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. Brilliantly weaving rich detail into a gripping narrative, Caro gives us both a galvanizing portrait of Johnson himself and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings of legislative power
"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 planeIt 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 *
"As if it were possible, Master of the Senate takes what was already an outstanding multi-volume series on to a still higher planeIt 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 *
Robert A. Caro has been described as `the greatest political biographer of our times’ (Sunday Times) and `the most revered historian of his generation’ (New York Times). His first book, The Power Broker, published in 1974, was described in 2015 as `one of the greatest non-fiction works ever written’ (Sunday Times) and his ongoing multi-volume work The Years of Lyndon Johnson has been described as `the greatest biography of our era’ (The Times). With these books he has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice won the National Book Award and three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also been awarded virtually every other major literary honour, including the National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, the highest award in the humanities given in the United States. Born in 1935, he graduated from Princeton University, later became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and was an investigative reporter for Newsday for six years. He lives with his wife, the writer Ina Caro, in New York City, where he is at work on the fifth and final volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780712660587 |
| ISBN 10 | 0712660585 |
| Title | Master of the Senate |
| Author | Robert A Caro |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2003-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 1200 |
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