The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0679729453 ISBN13: 9780679729457 Release Date: February 1990 Publisher: Vintage Length: 960 Pages Weight: 2.51 lbs. Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1" 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 attainmen