Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0394528360 ISBN13: 9780394528366 Release Date: April 2002 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Length: 1200 Pages Weight: 3.84 lbs. Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.6" x 9.6" Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries 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. 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, H