{"product_id":"robert-a-caros-the-years-of-lyndon-johnson-set-isbn-9780385351478","title":"Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson Set","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003epolitical biography of our time, now available in a four-volume hardcover set. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eRobert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon Johnson is one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American president. It is the magnum opus of a writer perfectly suited to his task: the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer-historian, chronicler also of Robert Moses in \u003ci\u003eThe Power Broker\u003c\/i\u003e, whose inspired research and profound understanding of the nature of ambition and the dynamics of power have made him a peerless explicator of political lives. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Taken together the installments of Mr. Caro’s monumental life of Johnson . . . form a revealing prism by which to view the better part of a century in American life and politics during which the country experienced tumultuous and divisive social change. . .Gripping.” --Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen, Caro has forever changed the way we think, and read, American history . . . It’s his immense talent as a writer that has made his biography of Johnson one of America’s most amazing literary achievements . . . As absorbing as a political thriller . . .A masterpiece, unlike any other work of American history published in the past. It’s true that there will never be another Lyndon B. Johnson, but there will never be another Robert A. Caro, either.” –NPR \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“One of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece” --\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London) \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Path to Power \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ereveals the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson’s political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas Hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless of the national power for which he hungered. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeans of Ascent \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003efollows Johnson through his service in World War II to the foundation of his long-concealed fortune and the facts behind the myth he created about it. The explosive heart of the book is Caro’s revelation of the true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, which Johnson had to win or face certain political death, and which he did win--by “87 votes that changed history.” Caro makes us witness to a momentous turning point in American politics; the tragic last stand of the old politics versus the new—the politics of issue versus the politics of image, mass manipulation, money and electronic dazzle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award in Biography \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaster of the Senate \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ecarries Johnson’s story through his twelve remarkable years in the Senate. It is an 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. In a breathtaking tour de force, Caro details Johnson’s amazing triumph in maneuvering to passage the first civil rights legislation since 1875. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePulitzer Prize in Biography \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Award in Biography \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Book Award in Nonfiction \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Passage of Power \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis an unparalleled account of the battle between Johnson and John Kennedy for the 1960 presidential nomination, of the machinations behind Kennedy’s decision to offer Johnson the vice presidency, of Johnson’s powerlessness and humiliation in that role, and of the savage animosity between Johnson and Robert Kennedy. In Caro’s description of the Kennedy assassination, which \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ecalled “the most riveting ever,” we see the events of November 22, 1963, for the first time through Lyndon Johnson’s eyes. And we watch as his political genius enables him to grasp the reins of the presidency with total command and, within weeks, make it wholly his own, surmounting unprecedented obstacles in order to fulfill the highest purpose of the office. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award in Biography \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Brilliant . . . Important . . . Remarkable … In sparkling detail, Caro shows Johnson’s genius for getting to people—friends, foes, and everyone in between—and how he used it to achieve his goals…With this fascinating and meticulous account, Robert Caro has once again done America a great service.”— President Bill Clinton, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e(front cover)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The politicians’ political book of choice…An encyclopedia of dirty tricks that would make Machiavelli seem naïve.” \u003ci\u003eLondon Literary Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Making ordinary politics and policymaking riveting and revealing is what makes Caro a genius. Combined with his penetrating insight and fanatical research, Caro’s Churchill-like prose elevates the life of a fairly influential president to stuff worthy of Shakespeare. . .Robert Caro stands alone as the unquestioned master of the contemporary American political biography.” \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and for Best Biography of the Year, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best “exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.” In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCaro’s first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, \u003c\/i\u003eeverywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to David Halberstam, “Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” And \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003esaid: “In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe first volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power\u003c\/i\u003e, was cited by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003eas “proof that we live in a great age of biography . . . [a book] of radiant excellence . . . Caro’s evocation of the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson’s unsleeping ambition, his understanding of how politics actually work, are—let it be said flat out—at the summit of American historical writing.” Professor Henry F. Graff of Columbia University called the second volume, \u003ci\u003eMeans of Ascent\u003c\/i\u003e, “brilliant. No review does justice to the drama of the story Caro is telling, which is nothing less than how present-day politics was born.” The London \u003ci\u003eTimes \u003c\/i\u003ehailed volume three, \u003ci\u003eMaster of the Senate\u003c\/i\u003e, as “a masterpiece . . . Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age.” \u003ci\u003eThe Passage of Power, \u003c\/i\u003evolume four, has been called “Shakespearean … A breathtakingly dramatic story [told] with consummate artistry and ardor” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) and “as absorbing as a political thriller …By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen, Caro has forever changed the way we think about, and read, American history” (NPR). On the cover of\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003ePresident Bill Clinton praised it as “Brilliant . . . Important . . .Remarkable. With this fascinating and meticulous account Robert Caro has once again done America a great service.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Caro has a unique place among American political biographers,” \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003ehas said.. “He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured.” And according to the London \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Caro is \"The greatest political biographer of our times.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBorn and raised in New York City, Caro graduated from Princeton University, was later a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and worked for six years as an investigative reporter for \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City with his wife, Ina, the historian and writer.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233519153381,"sku":"NP9780385351478","price":245.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385351478_22234edc-fb74-446f-9a6e-2e8f9fee66a8.jpg?v=1767735838","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/robert-a-caros-the-years-of-lyndon-johnson-set-isbn-9780385351478","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}