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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III par Caro, Robert A.

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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
3 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9780394528366
Book Title
Master of the Senate Vol. 3 : the Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Book Series
The Years of Lyndon Johnson Ser.
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
9.5 in
Publication Year
2002
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
2.2 in
Author
Robert A. Caro
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Presidents & Heads of State, Political, Historical
Item Weight
60.7 Oz
Item Width
6.5 in
Number of Pages
1200 Pages

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394528360
ISBN-13
9780394528366
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1981050

Product Key Features

Book Title
Master of the Senate Vol. 3 : the Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Number of Pages
1200 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Presidents & Heads of State, Political, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Robert A. Caro
Book Series
The Years of Lyndon Johnson Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
2.2 in
Item Weight
60.7 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in

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Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"A wonderful, a glorious tale . . . It will be hard to equal this amazing book. It reads like a Trollope novel, but not even Trollope explored the ambitions and the gullibilities of men as deliciously as Robert Caro does." --Anthony Lewis,New York Times Book Review "Mesmerizing . . . A tale rife with drama and hypnotic in the telling . . .The historian's equivalent of a Mahler symphony . . . [It] brings Lyndon blazing into the Senate." --Malcolm Jones,Newsweek "Caro must be America's greatest living Presidential biographer . . . No other contemporary biographer offers such a complex picture of the forces driving an American politician, or populates his work with such vividly drawn secondary characters." --Richard S. Dunham,BusinessWeek "A panoramic study . . . 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 character." --Jill Abramson,New York Times "Probably the best book ever written about the U.S. Senate. A terrific study of power politics." --Steve Neal,Chicago Sun-Times "After more than a quarter of a century of research and thought about Lyndon Johnson, Caro sees the man in full . . . Caro's immersion in the man and period yields a fascinating, entertaining abundance." --Lance Morrow,Time "Brilliant . . . An indefatigable researcher and dazzling prose stylist, Caro has pulled off the seemingly impossible: He has converted the mundane legislative agenda of the Truman-Eisenhower era into a riveting political drama worthy of Robert Penn Warren." --Douglas Brinkley,Boston Globe "In this fascinating book, Robert Caro does more than carry forward his epic life of Lyndon Johnson. With compelling narrative power and with remarkable subtlety and sensitivity, he illuminates the Senate of the United States and its byzantine power struggles. In this historical tour-de-force, Robert Caro shows himself the true 'master of the Senate.' " --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "To immerse oneself in Robert Caro's heroic biographies is to come face to face with a shocking but unavoidable realization: Much of what we think we know about money, power and politics is a fairy tale . . .Master of the Senateforces us not only to rewrite our national political history but to rethink it as well . . . Compulsively readable." --Eric Alterman,The Nation "Aspectacular piece of historical biography, delicious reading for both political junkies and serious students of the political process . . . Fascinating . . .Worth the wait." --Robert D. Novak,The Weekly Standard "In terms of political biography, not only does it not get better than this, it can't . . .The highest expression of biography as art . . . Caro's command of his material is absolute . . . As absorbing as an epic movie." --Patrick Beach,Austin American-Statesman "Master of the Senateis vintage Caro--a portrait so deft, vivid, and compelling that you practically feel LBJ gripping your arm and bending you to his will." --Jean Strouse "The most complete portrait of the Senate ever drawn. The work, told within the framework of the life of Lyndon Johnson, is really an epic history of the twentieth century." --Michael Wolff,New York "Every paradox that makes politics truly, endlessly, fascinating . . . is there in . . .The Years of Lyndon Johnson. . .Regarded by many as the greatest political biography of the modern era. Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics." --Daniel Finkelstein,The Times(London) "For Caro writing a biography is writing a thriller--in Johnson's case, a western.
Series Volume Number
3
Dewey Decimal
973.923092
Synopsis
Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. It was during these years that all Johnson's experience--from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine--came to fruition. Caro introduces the story with a dramatic account of the Senate itself: how Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun had made it the center of governmental energy, the forum in which the great issues of the country were thrashed out. And how, by the time Johnson arrived, it had dwindled into a body that merely responded to executive initiatives, all but impervious to the forces of change. Caro anatomizes the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had made the seniority system all-powerful for a century and more, Johnson became Majority Leader after only a single term-the youngest and greatest Senate Leader in our history; how he manipulated the Senate's hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and strengths of his colleagues to change the "unchangeable" Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron-fisted control. Caro demonstrates how Johnson's political genius enabled him to reconcile the unreconcilable: to retain the support of the southerners who controlled the Senate while earning the trust--or at least the cooperation--of the liberals, led by Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey, without whom he could not achieve his goal of winning the presidency. He shows the dark side of Johnson's ambition: how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds. And we watch him achieve the impossible: convincing southerners that although he was firmly in their camp as the anointed successor to their leader, Richard Russell, it was essential that they allow him to make some progress toward civil rights. In a breathtaking tour de force, Caro details Johnson's amazing triumph in maneuvering to passage the first civil rights legislation since 1875. Master of the Senate, told with an abundance of rich detail that could only have come from Caro's peerless research, is both a galvanizing portrait of the man himself--the titan of Capital Hill, volcanic, mesmerizing--and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings and personal and legislative power.
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  • The Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro (2002

    I worked for LBJ in Washington and had a major collection of LBJ material from that time. It was all lost in a fire so I am trying to replace as much of it as possible. Some of the things cannot be replaced. These Caro books are important. I differ with Caro here and there on his take regarding LBJ but I am a lifelong biased Democrat "without prefix, suffix or apology!!!" I am a Texan from head to toe. Caro's LBJ books are important as to their impact on LBJ's legacy and his place in political history. His books add to any consideration of the "spirit" of LBJ's times and my own time. Caro has a "yankee" perspective and bias regarding LBJ. That is understandable. All writers have their own unique perspective and bias resulting from their unique life experiences. Therefore ...

  • Great book to read!

    As one who loves the Capitol and its history, I found this book on Lyndon B. Johnson and his years as Senator fascinating and thrilled in reading all of its pages. The author, Robert A. Caro, will no doubt have his final book on LBJ and his years as presidency also fascinating as this one as Senator.

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  • LBJ a complex and significant man

    This is the 3d of Robert Caro’s planned 5-volume biography. Superb, probing research that unmasks this troubled, ambitious, ruthless personality.

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  • Great

    Awesome book. Only 200 pages in, but it’s great.

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  • Cato is a master of words

    Required reading for students of US history

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