The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power; Means of Ascent; Master of the Senate; The Passage of Power

Beschreibung

First edition, first printing of each published volume of Robert Caro's biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Signed by Caro on the half-title page or front free endpaper of each volume. xxiii, 882, [3]; xxxiv, 506, [3]; xxiv, 1167, [5]; xix, 712, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt. Light reading wear to Vol. 1, else Fine in Fine dust jackets. An attractive set. Robert Caro is one of the most acclaimed biographers in American history. The Power Broker, his study of the urban planner Robert Moses, won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize and has served as a foundational text for urban planning students ever since. Caro has been working on his exhaustively-researched biography of LBJ for more than forty years, publishing the first volume in 1982. He is still at work on the fifth and final volume. Master of the Senate brought Caro his second Pulitzer, and his many other awards include two National Book Awards and the National Humanities Medal.

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Titel

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power; Means of Ascent; Master of the Senate; The Passage of Power

Verlag

Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Auflage

First Edition.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Schutzumschlag

Signiert

Signatur des Verfassers

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• Signed
• Biography
• Politics
• History
• Presidential