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050	0	0	_aE846 _b.C37 2012
082	0	0	_a92 JOH
100	1		_aCaro, Robert A.
245	1	4	_aThe passage of power _c/ Robert A. Caro
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2012.
300			_axix, 712 p. _c; 25 cm.
490	0		_aThe years of Lyndon Johnson
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [613]-628) and index.
520			_aThe first volume of Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson was published in 1982; the third, Master of the Senate, garnered the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. Caro (The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York) now presents the fourth volume-a major event in biography, history, even publishing itself. The time span covered here is short, opening with Johnson's unsuccessful try for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination and closing with his 1964 State of the Union address mere weeks after JFK's assassination. Caro's focus is on those seven weeks between the assassination and the address. He again alters our view of Johnson by illuminating how, even in the earliest moments of confusion and grief following the assassination, he moved beyond the humiliations of his years as vice president and, with a genius for public leadership buttressed by behind-the-scenes manipulation of the levers of power, ensured the success in Congress of JFK's dormant economic and civil rights programs while establishing himself, however briefly, as a triumphant president, fulfilling his lifetime ambition. Caro has once more combined prodigious research and a literary gift to mount a stage for his Shakespearean figures: LBJ, JFK, and LBJ's nemesis Robert F. Kennedy.
600	1	0	_aJohnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
651			_aUnited States _x-Politics and government _y-1963-1969
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