Robert Caro.
ROBERT CARO: LYNDON JOHNSON BIOGRAPHY VOL.1
tHE PATH TO POWER: THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON (1982)
Lyndon B. Johnson (born 1908) was a Democrat polician from Texas, who served from 1963 to 1969 as the President of the USA. He had been serving as Vice President when President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. He previously served as a Senator from Texas, and as the Senate Majority Whip. His major achievement as Senate Majority Leader was the passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1965 and 1968. He was also as President strongly committed to the war on poverty, through his Great Society agenda. His foreign policy was less successful. He ramped up the military involvement of the USA in the Vietnam War but this led to huge casualties, to the rise of anti-war protests, and to the eventual withdrawal of the USA from Vietnam under his successor Richard Nixon. This volume of Caro’s biography covers Johnson’s life up to his failure in 1941 to be elected to the United States Senate.
The Washington Post wrote of this first volume of Caro’s magisterial bioraphy: "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 works are--let it be said flat out--at the summit of American historical writing." The New York Times described the book as "A monumental political saga . . . powerful and stirring. It's an overwhelming experience to read The Path to Power."
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Robert Caro (born 1935) is a journalist and author known for his much admired biographies of New York City planner Robert Moses and US President Lyndon Johnson. He has won many awards including two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography. He was born in New York City, the son of Jewish parents. He became a prolific writer from a young age. At Princeton his senior thesis ‘Heading Out: A Study of the Development of Ernest Hemingway Thought’ ran to 235 pages and caused the University to introduce a maximum length for senior theses.
