num_pages: 912
description: This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered. In this book, we are brought as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process. Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, was a number one national best seller and, like The Path to Power, received the National Book Critics Circle Award.
language: English
title: The Path to Power
titlecomplete: The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
characters: Charles Marsh, Sam Rayburn, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Sam Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson
genres: American, Audiobook, Presidents, Nonfiction, American History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Us Presidents, Politics, History
ratings_count: 23341
places: Johnson City, Texas, Washington, D.C.
series: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover)
publisher: Pimlico