9780394499734 - The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I von Caro, Robert A. (19 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair-Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. A 2nd print (stated) of the first volume of Caro's exhaustive and definitive biography of LBJ. It covers Johnson's life up to his failed 1941 campaign for the United States Senate. Mild edge wear to the DJ. The bottom half of the rear spine hinge is broken at the photo credits page. A good to very good copy. A heavy, oversize book that may require additional postage.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. Second printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 882 pages, + index and bibliography. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Second printing stated. Hardcover. xxiii+ 882 pp.with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. The first volume in what would currently be a four-volume (with a fifth volume planned) biography of Lyndon Johnson. This work follows the future President from his Depression era boyhood years in the Texas Hill Country and college years to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, the heratbreaking defeat in his first race for Senate and the beginnings of his rise to power. Biographer Caro, a Pulitzer prize winner, moved to rural Texas and later to Washington D.C. in order to research and better understand his subject.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Book Club Edition. The first volume of Caro's exhaustive and definitive biography of LBJ. It covers Johnson's life up to his failed 1941 campaign for the United States Senate. BCE - no price or printing statement, blind stamp on rear cover. Light wear at the edges.Small closed tear at the top of the front panel. Small hole at the upper right of the rear panel. A very good copy. A heavy, oversize book that will require additional postage.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Arnold Newman (Author photograph) (illustrator). Fourth printing [stated]. xxiii, [1], 882, [4] pages. 48 pages of photographs and two maps. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He has since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a biography of the former president. He has been described as "the most influential biographer of the last century." For his biographies, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, two National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize (awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that "best exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist"), three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Mencken Award for Best Book, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the D. B. Hardeman Prize, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal. 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 service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon, raised in one of the country's most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father's slide into failure and financial ruin, lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate impossible goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be. We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates. We see him carrying out, before his thirtieth year, his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable Mr. Sam Raybum (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the intensities and complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters. Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson bullying, cajoling, lying, yet inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnso.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Arnold Newman (Author Photograph) (illustrator). Book Club Edition. xxiii [1], , 882, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography, Notes. Index. Some DJ wear. Some edge soiling. This first volume of Caro's biography traces Johnson from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his defeat in his first race for the U.S. Senate. Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American author known for his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. Caro wrote The Power Broker, a biography of Robert Moses, which was chosen as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He has written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Mencken Award, and a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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 early emergence of Johnson's political genius, it follows him to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington and to his attainment of national power. 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. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon, lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate impossible goal that he sets for himself. We watch him instinctively creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize useful subordinates. We see him carrying out his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable Mr. Sam Raybum and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters. Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner as the New Deal's connection in Texas, and seize the power himself. Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district's first electric lines. We see the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. Here is Lyndon Johnson, his Texas, his Washington, his America, in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First Edition, stated. Thick octavo; printed dust jacket with $19.95 price present; black boards stamped in gilt; tan endpapers; 882pp. Black and white photographs. Light toning and edgewear to dust jacket. Boards show mild shelfwear; binding sound; pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of the first volume of Caro's monumental biography of LBJ, covering his early life in Texas and experiences as a congressional aide and Congressman in DC.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 960 pages. 9.50x6.75x2.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York. 1982. Xxiii, 882 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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. ; 6.73 X 1.93 X 9.53 inches; 882 pages.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 960 pages. 9.50x6.75x2.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 960 pages. 9.50x6.75x2.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, ROBERT A. CARO has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the Nat.

Hardcover. Zustand: very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Arnold Newman (Author Photograph) (illustrator). xxiii, 882, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography, Notes. Index. Minor DJ wear. This first volume of Caro's biography traces Johnson from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his defeat in his first race for the U.S. Senate. Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. Caro wrote The Power Broker, a biography of Robert Moses, which was chosen as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He has written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Mencken Award, and a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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 early emergence of Johnson's political genius, it follows him to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington and to his attainment of national power. 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. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon, lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate impossible goal that he sets for himself. We watch him instinctively creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize useful subordinates. We see him carrying out his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable Mr. Sam Raybum and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters. Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner as the New Deal's connection in Texas, and seize the power himself. Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district's first electric lines. We see the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. Here is Lyndon Johnson, his Texas, his Washington, his America, in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.