The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I.
by Robert A. Caro
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Knopf, 1982. First edition. Hardback. Fine/fine. First edition (stated)/ first printing. Fine in bright, crisp, price clipped dust jacket. 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.
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- Title
- The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I.
- Author
- Robert A. Caro
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394499735
- ISBN 13
- 9780394499734
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- presidents, LBJ, texas, white house, senate, lyndon, new deal,
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