The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power

Robert Allan Caro is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker , a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, and... chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He then wrote The Years of Lyndon Johnson , a planned five-volume biography of the former president. For his biographies he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, the National Book Award, The Francis Parkman Prize two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the H.L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and an Award in Literature and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He was born on October 30, 1935.
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Three volumes have published, running to more than 2,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A fourth and fifth volume will deal with Johnson's vice... presidency and presidency. The series has been published by Alfred A. Knopf. In the first volume, The Path to Power, Caro retraced Johnson's life by temporarily moving to rural Texas and Washington, D.C., to better understand Johnson's upbringing and to interview anyone who had known Johnson. This volume covers Johnson's life through his failed 1941 campaign for the United States Senate. This book was released on November 12, 1982. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In the second volume, Means of Ascent, Caro detailed Johnson's life from the aftermath of Johnson's first Senate bid to his election to the Senate in 1948. Much of the book deals with Johnson's bitterly-contested Democratic primary against Coke R. Stevenson. This book was released on March 7, 1990.
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