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

Caro, Robert A

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224062875 ISBN 13 : 9780224062879

Editeur : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

This is the third part of Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson, which began with "The Path to Power" and "Means of Ascent". At the heart of "Master of the Senate" is its 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 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 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; and how Johnson changed the course of Civil Rights in America.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert A. Caro graduated from Princeton University, later became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and was for six years an investigative reporter for Newsday. His first book, The Power Broker, won the Pulitzer Prize in biography and the Frances Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. Both The Path to Power and Means of Ascent won the National Book Critics Circle Award as the Best Nonfiction Book of the Year. Caro has also won the H. L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Caro, who lives in New York City with his wife, has served as President of the Author' Guild of American and as Vice President of PEN.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224062875
• ISBN 13: 9780224062879
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible