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|title=The Years of Lyndon Johnson
* Vol. 1 - The Path to Power
* Vol. 2 - Means of Ascent
* Vol. 3 - Master of the Senate
|author=Robert Caro
|year=1982
|notes=Idea for book came from stumbling upon these books on Amazon.

In Marriott Library:
* Marriott Library LVL 2 (E847 .C34 1982 )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Lyndon_Johnson

Review of Volume 1:

"A masterful narrative on a grand scale, a fascinating portrait of LBJ's activities set against a fully drawn canvas of life in the Texas hill country. By far the most significant Johnson book to appear." --Library Journal

Review of Volume 2:

The second installment in a projected four-volume biography of LBJ that opened with The Path to Power, Means of Ascent shines a harsh light on the early political years of one of America's most paradoxical presidents. The man who would later ram civil rights legislation through a reluctant Congress, and then be brought down by Vietnam, came out of a political swamp--Caro gives a graphic picture of the Texas democratic political machine at its most corrupt. The climax of the book is LBJ's election to the Senate in 1948, an election he won by 87 dubious votes out of almost a million. That vote arguably changed history. This book won the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.

Review of Volume 3:

As a genre, Senate biography tends not to excite. The Senate is a genteel establishment engaged in a legislative process that often appears arcane to outsiders. Nevertheless, there is something uniquely mesmerizing about the wily, combative Lyndon Johnson as portrayed by Caro. In this, the third installment of his projected four-volume life of Johnson (following The Path to Power and Means of Ascent), Caro traces the Texan's career from his days as a newly elected junior senator in 1949 up to his fight for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960. In 1953, Johnson became the youngest minority leader in Senate history, and the following year, when the Democrats won control, the youngest majority leader. Throughout the book, Caro portrays an uncompromisingly ambitious man at the height of his political and rhetorical powers: a furtive, relentless operator who routinely played both sides of the street to his advantage in a range of disputes. "He would tell us [segregationists]," recalled Herman Talmadge, "I'm one of you, but I can help you more if I don't meet with you." At the same time, Johnson worked behind the scenes to cultivate NAACP leaders. Though it emerges here that he was perhaps not instinctively on the side of the angels in this or other controversies, the pragmatic Senator Johnson nevertheless understood the drift of history well, and invariably chose to swim with the tide, rather than against. The same would not be said later of the Johnson who dwelled so glumly in the White House, expanding a war that even he, eventually, came to loathe. But that is another volume: one that we shall await eagerly.

Volume 4:

Caro is currently at work on the final volume, tentatively entitled The Presidency. Caro announced on the April 10, 2009 edition of Charlie Rose that the final volume would not be released until 2012. He has also said that he plans subsequently to produce an edited single-volume edition of the books. (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Lyndon_Johnson)

V. 1: 960 pages

V. 2: 592 pages

V. 3: 1232 pages
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