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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3 (Unabridged) by Robert A. Caro |
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3 (Unabridged)
Publisher: Books on Tape
Author: Robert A. Caro
Audio lenght: 18 hours and 27 min.
Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his 12 years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics, by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody of itself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperately needed liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson's brilliance, charm, and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and most powerful Majority Leader in history and how he used his incomparable legislative genius, cajoling and threatening both Northern liberals and Southern conservatives, to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction. Brilliantly weaving rich detail into a gripping narrative, Caro gives us both a galvanizing portrait of Johnson himself and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings of legislative power.
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