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description: The political biography of our time now available in a three-volume hardcover set. Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson is one of the richest most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American president. It is the magnum opus of a writer perfectly suited to his task: the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer-historian chronicler also of Robert Moses in The Power Broker whose inspired research and profound understanding of the nature of ambition and the dynamics of power have made him a peerless explicator of political lives.Taken together the installments of Mr. Caro's monumental life of Johnson . . . form a revealing prism by which to view the better part of a century in American life and politics during which the country experienced tumultuous and divisive social change. . .Gripping. --Michiko Kakutani The New York Times By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen Caro has forever changed the way we think and read American history . . . It's his immense talent as a writer that has made his biography of Johnson one of America's most amazing literary achievements . . . As absorbing as a political thriller . . .A masterpiece unlike any other work of American history published in the past. It's true that there will never be another Lyndon B. Johnson but there will never be another Robert A. Caro either. -NPROne of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece --The Times (Londo
language: English
title: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf