The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV

Name: The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV
ISBN: 9780679405078

by Robert A. Caro

National Book · 2012 · Winner

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KnopfMay 1, 2012Biography & Memoir History NonfictionISBN 9780679405078

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography	2012	Winner

About This Book

Robert Caro's fourth volume of his monumental LBJ biography covers the years 1958–1964, from Johnson's defeat in the 1960 Democratic primary through the assassination of Kennedy and his first weeks as president. Winner of the NBCC Award for Biography.

About the Author

Robert A. CaroAmerican

Robert Allan Caro, born October 30, 1935, is an American journalist and author renowned for his exhaustive biographies of political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. His seminal work, The Power Broker (1974), a Pulitzer Prize-winning study of Moses's exercise of power in shaping New York, is considered a modern classic, while his multi-volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson series (1982–2012) has earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and numerous other accolades, including the National Humanities Medal. Read more →