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The Years of Lyndon Johnson Ser.: Master of the Senate Vol. 3 : The Years of Lyndon Johnson III by Robert A. Caro (2003, Trade Paperback, Reprint)

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Master of the Senate : The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Paperback by Caro, Robert A., ISBN 0394720954, ISBN-13 9780394720951, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Describes the future president's career in the . Senate, from breaking the southern control of Capitol Hill to passing the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.

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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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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394720954
ISBN-13
9780394720951
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2417010

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Book Title
Master of the Senate Vol. 3 : the Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Number of Pages
1232 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Presidents & Heads of State, Political, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Reprint
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Robert A. Caro
Book Series
The Years of Lyndon Johnson Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
57.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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Dewey Edition
20
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"A wonderful, a glorious tale. . . . It will be hard to equal this amazing book."-Anthony Lewis,The New York Times Book Review "Caro has a unique place among American political biographers. He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured." The Boston Globe "Caro has changed the art of political biography." -Nicholas von Hoffman "Mesmerizing. . . . [It] brings LBJ blazing into the Senate. . . . A tale rife with drama and hypnotic in the telling." -Newsweek "Caro's immersion in the man and period yields a fascinating, entertaining abundance.. .Master of the Senatesplendidly reassembles the U.S. Senate of those years." -Time "Brilliant . . . Caro achieves a special tension, too rare in history books but essential in epic poetry: the drama of a hero who is wrestling with his enemies, his limitations and his fate to achieve something truly lasting . . . In his hands, the obscure fight over legislation becomes nothing less than a battle for the soul of America . . .It's a terribly important work, unblinkingly delineating the inner workings of our democracy."-Chicago Tribune "A masterpiece . . . Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age." -The Times(London) "An epic tale of winning and wielding power." -Dan DeLuca,Philadelphia Inquirer "A wonderful, a glorious tale. It will be hard to equal this amazing book. I went back over chapters to make sure I had not missed a word." -Anthony Lewis,New York Times Book Review "Caro must be America's greatest living Presidential biographer . . . He entrances us with both his words and his research . . . 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 "Brilliant . . .A riveting political drama." -Douglas Brinkley,Boston Globe "The most complete portrait of the Senate ever drawn." -Michael Wolff,New York "A terrific study of power politics."-Steve Neal,Chicago Sun-Times "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 "Master of the Senateand its two preceding volumes are the highest expression of biography as art. AfterThe Path to PowerandMeans of Ascent,there shouldn't be much debate about Caro's grand achievement, but let's be clear about this nonetheless: In terms of political biography, not only does it not get better than this, it can't." -Patrick Beach,Austin American-Statesman "These [legislative battles] are great stories, the stuff of the legends of democracy--rich in character, plot, suspense, nuttiness, human frailty, maddening stupidity. These should be the American sagas; these should be our epics. Bob Caro has given us a beauty, and I think we owe him great thanks."-Molly Ivins,New York Observer "Indefatigably researched and bril
Lccn
2002-282796
Series Volume Number
3
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
973.923092
Edition Description
Reprint
Lc Classification Number
E847.C34 1982
Copyright Date
2002

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