Embarking upon the reading of four long volumes about Lyndon Baines Johnson might not sound like a good idea, especially when you know the effort will only take you through the first seven weeks of his presidency, the rest of which will be treated in Caro’s final volume, still a work in progress. Bu...show more
While popular culture was quick to relegate LBJ to caricature in the wake of his fatal obtuseness with regard to our military debacle in Vietnam, Caro tells the tale of a larger-than-life force whose political genius was as formidable as his flaws, taking us from his childhood in the Texas Hill Coun...show more
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