6/9/2023 0 Comments Means of ascent robert caroIt looks at the Texas Johnson grew up in generally for example, and gives us considerable detail about the characters that inhabit Texas' political landscape at the time. If you're expecting it to be a straight biography of Lyndon Johnson's life and his family, you'd be right and wrong, for while the book looks at Johnson's life and family, it strays, interestingly, from what you'd expect from a typical biography. As I'm sure people know now, it has morphed into a (probable) 5 book series, though this book still covers Johnson's life up to his first electoral loss. When he started this book, Caro intended the series to be 3 books, Johnson from birth to his first electoral loss (this book), Johnson in the senate, and Johnson as president. This is an interesting, if depressing book, especially if you came into this series of books with a generally positive view of Lyndon Johnson. This is a set of the first 4 books in Robert Caro's 5 book (at least) biography of Lyndon Johnson:
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