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 jok
內容簡介：
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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