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The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. Here is the perfect joining of subject and writer: Johnson, the man of awesome complexity, energy, ambition, and power—obsessed with secrecy, obscuring (often “rewriting”) the facts of his personal and political life; Caro, his biographer, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his life of Robert Moses, The Power Broker—and everywhere acclaimed for the brilliance, tenacity, and integrity of his research, for his grasp of character and of the workings of power.

The conjunction has produced a monumental and galvanizing book that is a landmark in American biography. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facts of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.

The Path to Power—the first book of The Years of Lyndon Johnson—reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the