The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power : The Years of Lyndon Johnson I (Series #1) (Hardcover)

from Kathleen828

I never expected to be gripped by a political biography in the same way that I sometimes am by a great classic novel. Johnson's character, as limned by Caro, is Shakespearean. Born it seems with ambition virulent in his soul, bred out of poverty and hardship, Johnson commands the stage from the f...

from James_Knupp

Caro's first book in the definitive biography of LBJ has got me excited for the rest of the series. I hadn't read any history in quite a while, so this was ambitious to jump back into it. Caro is so thoroughly researched, its hard to find fault or doubt with his writing. This book's greatest stre...

from NewsieQ

After finishing the fourth (of an expected five) book of this mega-biography, I vowed I'd read the first three. (I don't know why Johnson is so fascinating to me - growing up in the Viet Nam era, I definitely wasn't a fan of LBJ.) The Path to Power covers Johnson's early years - from his birth in...

from arubabookwoman

I had thought that I really wouldn't be interested in reading a biography of LBJ, but undertook this on the recomendation of Peggy and other LT'ers. I'm so glad I did--this book is so much more than LBJ's biography. It's an inciteful political history of the United States in the 20th century whic...

from MatthewN

I was hooked after the first chapter. This is the book that makes you understand LBJ, or at least what drives him. I am torn between feeling sorry for him and loathing him. You come away with the impression that he never did anything that did not benefit himself personally with a few exceptions. ...