Description

John A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which started using the greatly recommended The Road to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, proceeds -- among the wealthiest, most intense and most revealing exams actually performed of an American Leader. In Way of Ascent the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer/historian, chronicler likewise of Robert Moses in The Ability Broker, bears Brown through his service in World-War II and the building blocks of his long-hidden bundle and the reality behind the myths he produced about any of it. However the intense heart of the guide is Caro's thought of the real story of the increasingly competitive 1948 senatorial selection, for forty years shrouded in gossip, which Johnson had to win or encounter particular political demise, and which he did win -- by "the 87 votes that changed history." Caro makes us witness to a significant turning-point in American politics: the sad last stand of the old politics versus the brand new -- the politics of problem versus the politics of mass adjustment, picture, cash and digital charm.