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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV by Robert Caro — book cover

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

by Robert Caro

National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography · 2012 · Winner
Knopfbiography-memoirhistorynonfictionISBN 9780679405078

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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 CaroAmerican

Robert Caro is an American author and biographer widely considered the greatest living practitioner of biographical nonfiction in the English language. Born in New York City in 1935, Caro studied at Princeton University and worked as a journalist and investigative reporter before devoting his career to two monumental, multi-volume biographical projects: a life of urban planner Robert Moses and a life of Lyndon Johnson. His biography The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) won the Pulitzer Prize and is considered one of the greatest works of American nonfiction ever published—a 1,300-page account of power, ambition, and the making of modern New York. Read more →

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