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Master of the Senate Vol. 3

The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Master of the Senate( )
Author: Caro, Robert A.
Read by: Lang, Stephen
ISBN:978-0-553-71292-6
Publication Date:Apr 2002
Publisher:Random House Audio Publishing Group
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $37.95
Book Description:

Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work,The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinningThe Path to Power and Means of Ascent. Master of the Senatecarries Lyndon 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...
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Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.91 x 5.67 x 1.94 Inches
Book Weight:0.884 Pounds
Author Biography
Caro, Robert A. (Author)
Robert Allan Caro was born October 30, 1935 in New York. He went to Princeton University, where he majored in English and became managing editor of The Daily Princetonian. Caro began his professional career as a reporter with the New Brunswick Daily Home News. He took a brief leave to work for the Middlesex County Democratic Party as a publicist. He went on to six years as an investigative reporter with the Long Island newspaper Newsday. Robert Caro then went on to write about influential people in New York. His work The Power Broker was a biography on New York urban planner Robert Moses, that highlighted the fight for a proposed bridge across Long Island Sound from Rye to Oyster Bay. He then went on to write about Lyndon Johnson's life in a 5 volume set. Caro's books portray Johnson as a complex character who he also saw as a visionary progressive. He enjoyed writing about politicians and their use of power. For his biographies, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, the National Book Award, the Francis Parkman Prize which is awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that "best exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist" two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the H.L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Art and Letters. In October 2007, Caro was named a "Holtzbrinck Distinguished Visitor" at the American Academy in Berlin. In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama, the highest award in the humanities given in this country and in 2012 his title Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson made the New York Times Best Seller List.

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