![]() ![]() I have never read a book more thoroughly researched. That is Caro’s true subject, which he chooses to explore through the life of a true genius when it comes to the wielding of political power, Lyndon Johnson. The level of detail Caro gives us in this book and throughout the series is truly amazing. It is a history of Texas, of the Hill Country, of the Senate and some of its most important figures, of America, and it is, above all, a treatise on political power in America. Caro’s work covers much more than the story of one man. Though I have written summaries of the four books in the series Caro has published thus far, I really must urge anyone with an interest in American politics to read the original work. Having said that, no summary could really do justice to Caro’s book, and I do still believe that the summary gives you a fairly good overview of the early part of Johnson’s life and career–from his birth to his first and unsuccessful run for Senate in 1941. ![]() Part 1 of Robert Caro’s masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson. This is one of my earliest summaries, and I’m afraid that it gives some important subjects short shrift. ![]()
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