{"product_id":"the-path-to-power-the-years-of-lyndon-johnson-i-paperback","title":"The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert A. Caro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Years of Lyndon Johnson is \u003ci\u003ethe \u003c\/i\u003epolitical biography of our time. No president--no era of American politics--has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Path to Power, \u003c\/i\u003eBook 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered. In this book, we are brought as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process. \u003cbr\u003eMeans of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, was a number one national best seller and, like The Path to Power, received the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, ROBERT A. CARO has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best \"exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.\" In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal, stating at the time: \"I think about Robert Caro and reading \u003ci\u003eThe Power Broker \u003c\/i\u003eback when I was twenty-two years old and just being mesmerized, and I'm sure it helped to shape how I think about politics.\" The London \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e has said that Caro is \"The greatest political biographer of our times.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaro's first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, \u003c\/i\u003eeverywhere 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003esaid: \"In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power\u003c\/i\u003e, was cited by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003eas \"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, \u003ci\u003eMeans of Ascent\u003c\/i\u003e, \"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 \u003ci\u003eTimes \u003c\/i\u003ehailed volume three, \u003ci\u003eMaster of the Senate\u003c\/i\u003e, as \"a masterpiece . . . Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Passage of Power, \u003c\/i\u003evolume four, has been called \"Shakespearean . . . A breathtakingly dramatic story [told] with consummate artistry and ardor\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003ePresident Bill Clinton praised it as \"Brilliant . . . Important . . . Remarkable. With this fascinating and meticulous account Robert Caro has once again done America a great service.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Caro has a unique place among American political biographers,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003esaid . . . \"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn 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 \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City with his wife, Ina, the historian and writer.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 960\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award (1982)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978534289709,"sku":"9780679729457","price":27.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Wm5MS2hNZkkvM1V0d3hDNWtnbnV3QT09.webp?v=1775805680","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-path-to-power-the-years-of-lyndon-johnson-i-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}