The Years of Lyndon Johnson

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Three volumes have published, running to more than 2,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A fourth volume yet to be released will deal with Johnson's presidency. The series has been published by Alfred A. Knopf. In the first volume, The Path to Power, Caro retraced Johnson's life by temporarily moving... more

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Three volumes have published, running to more than 2,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A fourth volume yet to be released will deal with Johnson's presidency. The series has been published by Alfred A. Knopf. In the first volume, The Path to Power, Caro retraced Johnson's life by temporarily moving to rural Texas and Washington, D.C., to better understand Johnson's upbringing and to interview anyone who had known Johnson. This volume covers Johnson's life through his failed 1941 campaign for the United States Senate. This book was released on November 12, 1982. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In the second volume, Means of Ascent, Caro detailed Johnson's life from the aftermath of Johnson's first Senate bid to his election to the Senate in 1948. Much of the book deals with Johnson's bitterly-contested Democratic primary... less