Editions

The Path to Power

  • Imprint: Bodley Head

  • ISBN: 9781847926159

  • Length: 912  Pages

  • Dimensions: 234mm x 40mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 967g

  • RRP: £26.00

The Path to Power

  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 1)

‘The greatest biography of our era … Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics’ The Times

Robert A. Caro’s legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of twentieth-century America.

This first instalment tells of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country, revealing in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy and ambition that set LBJ apart. It charts his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as a Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate and his attainment, nonetheless, at the age of thirty-one of the power for which he hungered.

  • Imprint: Bodley Head

  • ISBN: 9781847926159

  • Length: 912  Pages

  • Dimensions: 234mm x 40mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 967g

  • RRP: £26.00

Reviews

  • "The greatest biography of our era … Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics"

    The Times

  • "A book of radiant excellence … at the summit of American historical writing … Proof that we live in a great age of biography"

    Washington Post

  • "A superb and unique biography … Meticulous in research, grand in scale, this is a major work that will remain a tower of its kind"

    Barbara Tuchman

  • "Truly sensational and enthralling … totally original"

    Financial Times

  • "By every measure – depth of research, brilliance of conception, the seamless flow of the prose – The Path to Power is a masterpiece of biography"

    Newsday

  • "Powerful and stirring. A monumental political saga … it is an overwhelming experience to read The Path to Power"

    New York Times

  • "Not only a historical but a literary event. An epic biography … a sweeping, richly detailed portrait … an awesome achievement"

    Newsweek

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About the Author

Robert A Caro

Robert A. Caro has been described as ‘the greatest political biographer of our times’ (Sunday Times) and ‘a world authority on the nature of power and how to use it’ (Guardian). His first book, The Power Broker, won the Pulitzer Prize in biography and the Frances Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. His subsequent books comprise a multi-volume work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, 'regarded by many as the greatest political biography of the modern era' (The Times), winning three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the National Book Award and a further Pulitzer Prize. In 2009 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, the highest award in the humanities given in the United States. He lives in New York City with his wife, Ina, an historian and writer.

Robert A Caro

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