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The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 1)
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The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 1)

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Reissued as a Bodley Head trade paperback, the first instalment of ‘the greatest biography of our era’ The Times

‘The greatest biography of our era … Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics’ The Times;;Robert 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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
4 July 2019
Pages
912
ISBN
9781847926159

Reissued as a Bodley Head trade paperback, the first instalment of ‘the greatest biography of our era’ The Times

‘The greatest biography of our era … Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics’ The Times;;Robert 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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
4 July 2019
Pages
912
ISBN
9781847926159