The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Energy; Technique of Ascent; Grasp of the Senate; The Passage of Energy

The political biography of our time, now accessible in a four-volume hardcover set. Robert A. Caro’s lifetime of Lyndon Johnson is among the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American president. It’s the magnum opus of a author completely suited to his job: the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer-historian, chronicler additionally of Robert Moses in “The Energy Dealer,” whose impressed analysis and profound understanding of the character of ambition and the dynamics of energy have made him a peerless explicator of political lives. “Taken collectively the installments of Mr. Caro’s monumental lifetime of Johnson . . . type a revealing prism by which to view the higher a part of a century in American life and politics throughout which the nation skilled tumultuous and divisive social change. . .Gripping.” –Michiko Kakutani, “The New York Instances ” “By writing the most effective presidential biography the nation has ever seen, Caro has perpetually modified the way in which we expect, and browse, A