Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0394528352 ISBN13: 9780394528359 Release Date: March 1990 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Length: 560 Pages Weight: 2.50 lbs. Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.7" In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. Here, Johnson's almost mythic personality--part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating--is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. This multifaceted book carries the President-to-be from the aftermath of his devastating defeat in his 1941 campaign for the Senate-the despair it engendered in him, and the grueling test of his spirit that followed as political doors slammed shut-through his service in World War II (and his artful embellishment of his record) to the foundation of his fortune (and the actual facts behind the myth he created about it). The culminating drama--the explosive heart of the book--is Caro's i