Means of ascent / Robert A. Caro.
1990
E847 .C34 1982 vol. 2 (Mapit)
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Title
Means of ascent / Robert A. Caro.
Author
Caro, Robert A., author.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0394528352
9780394528359
9780394528359
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [1990]
Copyright
©1990
Language
English
Description
xxxiv, 506 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Call Number
E847 .C34 1982 vol. 2
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.923/092
Summary
Carries Johnson from his 19th senate defeat through WWII and on to the securing of his political and economic fortunes.
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. In Means of Ascent the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer/historian, chronicler also of Robert Moses in The Power Broker, carries Johnson through his service in World War II and the foundation of his long-concealed fortune and the facts behind the myths he created about it. But the explosive heart of the book is Caro's revelation of the true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, for forty years shrouded in rumor, which Johnson had to win or face certain political death, and which he did win -- by "the 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.
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. In Means of Ascent the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer/historian, chronicler also of Robert Moses in The Power Broker, carries Johnson through his service in World War II and the foundation of his long-concealed fortune and the facts behind the myths he created about it. But the explosive heart of the book is Caro's revelation of the true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, for forty years shrouded in rumor, which Johnson had to win or face certain political death, and which he did win -- by "the 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-482) and index.
Awards
National Book Critics Circle Award.
Series
Caro, Robert A. Years of Lyndon Johnson ; 2.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Ends and means
Part I : "Too Slow"
Going back
All quiet on the Western front
In the Pacific
Lady Bird
Marking time
Buying and selling
One of a crowd - Part II : The Old and the New
The story of Coke Stevenson
Head start
"Will!"
The Flying windmill
All or nothing
The stealing
Lists of names
Qualities of leadership
The making of a legend
A love story
Three rings.
Part I : "Too Slow"
Going back
All quiet on the Western front
In the Pacific
Lady Bird
Marking time
Buying and selling
One of a crowd - Part II : The Old and the New
The story of Coke Stevenson
Head start
"Will!"
The Flying windmill
All or nothing
The stealing
Lists of names
Qualities of leadership
The making of a legend
A love story
Three rings.