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Item Details
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MEANS OF ASCENT
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| By: |
Robert A. Caro |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0712698892 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780712698894 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
12 November, 1992 |
| Pages: |
544 |
| Description: |
Reveals some grotesqueries of American politics. For this is the time when Johnson created for himself an exaggerated record as a war hero, when he and his wife made themselves rich by juggling radio station licences and when Johnson won, by 87 dubious votes, his first seat in the US Senate. |
| Synopsis: |
With this, the second volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro enters into the central narrative of his magisterial biography - one of the richest, most intensive and revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. Here we have Johnson's service in the Second World War and the foundation of his long-concealed fortunes- as well as the facts behind the myths he created about them. But the explosive heart of the book is Caro's revelation of the true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, for 40 years shrouded in rumor, which Johnson had either to win or face certain political death, and which he did win - by 'the 87 votes that changed history'. Caro allows us to witness a momentous turning point in American politics: the tragic last stand of the old politics versus the new - the politics of issue versus the politics of image, mass manipulation, money and electronic dazzle. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Pimlico |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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