The Years Of Lyndon Johnson Vol 3: Master of the Senate - Rilegato

Caro, Robert A

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ISBN 10: 0224062875 ISBN 13: 9780224062879

Casa editrice: Jonathan Cape, 2002

Riassunto

At the heart of Master of the Senate is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works, how the US Senate works, how Lyndon Johnson on his way to the presidency, mastered both, and how he used his power to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since 1868. Interweaving his narrative of Johnson's political career during the 1950s with brilliantly concise and acute history of the Senate, Caro shows us: How Johnson, employing his guile, his unerring instinct about his colleagues, and his strategic brilliance, became Majority Leader after only one term, and soon the most powerful man in the Senate. How the youngest and greatest Senate leader America has had changed the 'unchangeable' Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a tightly run legislative machine. How he destroyed the one man who threatened the monetary invincibility of the Texas oil barons who had financed Johnson's rise to power. How Johnson changed the course of Civil Rights in America. This is how political initiatives triumph or fail, how political genius functions. A magnificent work rich in the authority, insight and narrative power that made the Washington Post say of Caro on Johnson: 'At the summit of American historical writing-Proof that we live in the great age of biography.'

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Descrizione del libro:

Book three in Caro's monumental life of Lyndon Johnson - the most admired and riveting political biography of our era - which began with the bestselling and prize-winning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

L'autore:

Robert A. Caro has been described as ‘the greatest political biographer of our times’ (Sunday Times) and ‘a world authority on the nature of power and how to use it’ (Guardian). Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Princeton University, later became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and was an investigative reporter for Newsday for six years.

His first book, The Power Broker, won the Pulitzer Prize in biography and the Frances Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. His subsequent books comprise a multi-volume work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, 'regarded by many as the greatest political biography of the modern era' (The Times). Over the course of four volumes, he has become one of the most lauded writers of his generation, winning three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the National Book Award and a further Pulitzer Prize. He is currently at work on the fifth and final volume.

In addition, Robert Caro has also been awarded virtually every other major literary honour, including the Gold Medal in Biography from the National Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, the highest award in the humanities given in the United States. He lives in New York City with his wife, Ina, an historian and writer.

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• Editore: Jonathan Cape
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0224062875
• ISBN 13: 9780224062879
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 1280