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A review of The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro
Robert A. Caro began working on a biography of Lyndon Johnson in , the year he published his award-winning The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. He meant The Years of Lyndon Johnson to be a six-year, three-volume project. Instead, Caro's first volume, The Path to Power, appeared in —eight years of his life spent recounting the first 33 years of Johnson's.Means of Ascent was published in It covers seven years, culminating in Johnson's election to the Senate in (widely suspected but not proven to have been stolen until Caro uncovered clear documentary evidence). Master of the Senate, published in , spans the first ten years of Johnson's career as a senator and Senate Democratic leader. The Passage of Power, published last year, covers the period from to early ten years from Caro; five years of Johnson.
Devoted readers of this biography can take little encouragement from the actuarial tables. If Caro levels off at his current pace, taking two years of research and writing to chronicle one year of Johnson's life, it will be another two decades before Caro publishes the volume that t
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Book review: &#;The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson&#; By Robert A. Caro
On the final page of “The Passage of Power,” Robert Caro sums up the pages that have come before with a single word.
He calls Lyndon Baines Johnson “heroic.”
It is a word that has rarely, if ever, been used in American discourse about LBJ. And it is a word that, up until this moment in the book, Caro has avoided using.
Instead, he has made his case, brick by brick by brick, slowly, inexorably, pulling together many disparate stories involving sometimes world-jarring events, and laying them out in great detail and with great insight.
“The Passage of Power” is the fourth of what is now planned to be five volumes of Caro’s biography “The Years of Lyndon Johnson” — an astonishing and unprecedented in-depth look at the life of a public figure and his era, passionately researched and written, a work of great literature, among the best non-fiction works ever.
Caro has been working on LBJ since , and originally, he did not envision the need for “The Passage of Power.”
As initially laid out, “The Years of Lyndon Johnson” was to comprise three volumes — one on his rise from poverty in the Hill Country of Texas; a second about his years in the U.S. Senate, particularly as the immensely powerf