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Means of ascent / Robert A. Caro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caro, Robert A., author.
- Series:
- Caro, Robert A. Years of Lyndon Johnson ; 2.
- The years of Lyndon Johnson ; [2]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Elections, 1948.
- United States.
- United States. Congress. Senate.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Elections.
- History.
- Texas.
- Elections--Texas--History--20th century.
- Texas--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 506 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [1990]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1990]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power , also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues--one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. In Means of Ascent the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer/historian, chronicler also of Robert Moses in T he Power Broker , carries Johnson through his service in World War II and the foundation of his long-concealed fortune and the facts behind the myths he created about it. But the explosive heart of the book is Caro's revelation of the true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, for forty years shrouded in rumor, which Johnson had to win or face certain political death, and which he did win--by "the 87 votes that changed history." Caro makes us witness to a momentous turning point in American politics: the tragic last stand of the old politics versus the new--the politics of issue versus the politics of image, mass manipulation, money and electronic dazzle.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Ends and means
- Part I : "Too Slow"
- Going back
- All quiet on the Western front
- In the Pacific
- Lady Bird
- Marking time
- Buying and selling
- One of a crowd - Part II : The Old and the New
- The story of Coke Stevenson
- Head start
- "Will!"
- The Flying windmill
- All or nothing
- The stealing
- Lists of names
- Qualities of leadership
- The making of a legend
- A love story
- Three rings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-482) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780307422095
- 0307422097
- Publisher Number:
- 99989363233
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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