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The Years locate Lyndon Johnson
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As far as titles go, Robert A. Caro&#x;s Working is both humbly straightforward and almost comically understated. Yes, the year-old&#x;s book is a precise and detailed set of recollections about his painstaking, near-mythically thorough job of researching, interviewing, and writing about political figures. But the fruits of that labor aren&#x;t exactly ho-hum. Caro, of course, is responsible for two totems of American political biography: The Power Broker, about the New York public servant Robert Moses, responsible for nearly 50 years of sweeping development projects, and The Years of Lyndon Johnson, a multivolume account of the life of the 36th president. Working isn&#x;t meant to be a career capstone for Caro &#x; he&#x;s still plugging away on a final, feverishly anticipated Johnson book &#x; but it is, he explains, a kind of summation. I feel that I&#x;ve learned about researching power, about how power is obtained, about power is used and how it&#x;s abused, Caro says, and I wanted to share some things.
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Biography series by Robert Caro
Covers of the four published books of the series
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Four volumes have been published, running to more than 3, pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A fifth volume, which is currently being written, is expected to deal with the bulk of Johnson's presidency and post-presidential years. The series is published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Book One: The Path to Power ()
[edit]In the first volume, The Path to Power, Caro retraced Johnson's early life growing up in the Texas Hill Country and working in Washington, D.C. first as a congressional aide and then as a congressman. Caro's research included renting a house in the Hill Country for three years, living there much of that time, to interview numerous people who knew Johnson and his family, and to better understand the environment in which Johnson had grown up.[1] This volume covers Johnson's life through his failed campaign for the United States Senate.[2]
This book was released on November 12, It won the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was a finalist for the National Book Award, hardcover auto