Means of Ascent  -  Robert A. Caro

The Years of Lyndon Johnson II

KORTE INHOUD

In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years.



Here, Johnson's almost mythic personality-part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating-is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. This multifaceted book carries the President-to-be from the aftermath of his devastating defeat in his 1941 campaign for the Senate-the despair it engendered in him, and the grueling test of his spirit that followed as political...
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1991 Uitgever: Penguin Reeks: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Nummer: 2 594 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte:  241x159x32 ISBN-10: 067973371X ISBN-13: 9780679733713