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The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A.

Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the

Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable

periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United

States Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics,

by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody of

itself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperately

needed liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson’s brilliance,

charm, and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and most

powerful Majority Leader in history and how he used his

incomparable legislative genius--seducing both Northern liberals

and Southern conservatives--to pass the first Civil Rights

legislation since Reconstruction. Brilliantly weaving rich detail

into a gripping narrative, Caro gives us both a galvanizing

portrait of Johnson himself and a definitive and revelatory study

of the workings of legislative power.

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As President, conscious always of television, he tried to be what he conceived of as “presidential,” composed his face into a “dignified” (expressionless, immobile, carefully still) mask, spoke in deliberate cadences that he believed were “statesmanlike,” so that on television, which is where most Americans got to know him, he was stiff, stilted, colorless,unconvincing.

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Robert Caro's Master of the Senate examines in meticulous

detail Lyndon Johnson's career in that body, from his arrival in

1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his

election as JFK's vice president in 1960. This, the third in a

projected four-volume series, studies not only the pragmatic,

ruthless, ambitious Johnson, who wielded influence with both

consummate skill and "raw, elemental brutality," but also the

Senate itself, which Caro describes (pre-1957) as a "cruel joke"

and an "impregnable stronghold" against social change. The

milestone of Johnson's Senate years was the 1957 Civil Rights Act,

whose passage he single-handedly engineered. As important as the

bill was--both in and of itself and as a precursor to

wider-reaching civil rights legislation--it was only close to

Johnson's Southern "anti-civil rights" heart as a means to his

dream: the presidency. Caro writes that not only does power

corrupt, it "reveals," and that's exactly what this massive,

scrupulously researched book does. A model of social,

psychological, and political insight, it is not just masterful; it

is a masterpiece. --H. O'Billovich

书籍介绍

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics, by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody of itself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperately needed liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson’s brilliance, charm, and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and most powerful Majority Leader in history and how he used his incomparable legislative genius--seducing both Northern liberals and Southern conservatives--to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction. Brilliantly weaving rich detail into a gripping narrative, Caro gives us both a galvanizing portrait of Johnson himself and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings of legislative power.