Means of Ascent

Name: Means of Ascent
Author: Robert Caro

by Robert Caro

Second volume of Johnson biography covering political struggles and defeat

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Robert Caro

American biographer whose multi-volume life of Lyndon Johnson, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, is the greatest American political biography. The Power Broker, his biography of Robert Moses, is the definitive study of urban political power. His slow, meticulous research process has made each volume a major literary and political event.

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