{"product_id":"2940169467963","title":"Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 3 Full Unabridged","description":"Book Three of Robert A. Caro's monumental work,\u003ci\u003e The Years of Lyndon Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e-the most   admired and riveting political biography of our era-which began with the best-selling   and prizewinning \u003ci\u003eThe Path to Power and Means of Ascent\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaster of the Senate\u003c\/i\u003e carries   Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years,   from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented   revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how   Johnson, in his ascent  to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader   before him had ever done.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It was during these years that all Johnson's experience-from   his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his   hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine-came   to fruition. Caro introduces the story with a dramatic account of the Senate itself:   how Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun had made it the center of governmental   energy, the forum in which the great issues of the country were thrashed out. And   how, by the time Johnson arrived, it had dwindled into a body that merely responded   to executive initiatives, all but impervious to the forces of change. Caro anatomizes   the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had   made the seniority system all-powerful for a century and more, Johnson became Majority   Leader after only a single term-the youngest and greatest Senate Leader in our history;   how he manipulated the Senate's hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and   strengths of his colleagues to change the \"unchangeable\" Senate from a loose confederation   of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron-fisted   control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Caro demonstrates how Johnson's political genius enabled him to reconcile   the unreconcilable: to retain the support of the southerners who controlled the Senate   while earning the trust-or at least the cooperation-of the liberals, led by Paul   Douglas and Hubert Humphrey, without whom he could not achieve his goal of winning   the presidency. He shows the dark side of Johnson's ambition: how he proved his loyalty   to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying   the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power   Commission Chairman Leland Olds. And we watch him achieve the impossible: convincing   southerners that although he was firmly in their camp as the anointed successor to   their leader, Richard Russell, it was essential that they allow him to make some   progress toward civil rights. In a breathtaking tour de force, Caro details Johnson's   amazing triumph in maneuvering to passage the first civil rights legislation since   1875.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaster of the Senate\u003c\/i\u003e is told with an abundance of rich detail that could only   have come from Caro's peerless research-years immersed in the worlds of Johnson and   the United States Senate, examining thousands of documents and talking to hundreds   of people, from pages and cloakroom clerks to senators and administrative aides.   The result is both a galvanizing portrait of the man himself-the titan of Capitol   Hill, volcanic, mesmerizing-and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings   of personal and legislative power. It is a work that displays all the acuteness of   understanding and narrative brilliance that led the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e to call Caro's   \u003ci\u003eThe Path to Power\u003c\/i\u003e \"a monumental political saga . . . powerful and stirring.\"","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156481261808,"sku":"2940169467963","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169467963_p0.jpg?v=1763683386","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169467963","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}