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The Path to Power

Robert A Caro

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'The greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The TimesRobert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of twentieth-century America.This first instalment tells of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country, revealing in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy and ambition that set LBJ apart. It charts his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as a Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate and his attainment, nonetheless, at the age of thirty-one of the power for which he hungered.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
912
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN:
9781847926159
Published Date:
4/7/2019
Dimensions:
234mm x 153mm x 40mm
Weight:
967g
Category:
Politics & government

RRP: £30

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781847926159


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