The Path to Power - Robert Caro
The Path to Power
KORTE INHOUD
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president-no era of American politics-has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.
The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson's political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered.
We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate-coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the ...
The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson's political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered.
We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate-coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the ...
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1990Uitgever: PenguinReeks: Years of Lyndon Johnson960 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 233x154x35ISBN-10: 0679729453ISBN-13: 9780679729457Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Paperback, photographs in b/w, 8vo. [Auteur: Caro, Robert A.] [Pagina's: 882] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York, NY : Vintage Books] [Jaar: 1990] [Titel: The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Volume 1: The Path to Power]
