The Years of Lyndon Johnson

The political biography of our time, now available in a four-volume hardcover set. Robert A. Caros life of Lyndon Johnson is one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American president. It is the magnum opus of a writer perfectly suited to his task: the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer-historian, chronicler also of Robert Moses in The Power Broker, whose inspired research and profound understanding of the nature of ambition and the dynamics of power have made him a peerless explicator of political lives. Taken together the installments of Mr. Caros monumental life of Johnson . . . form a revealing prism by which to view the better part of a century in American life and politics during which the country experienced tumultuous and divisive social change. . . Gripping. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen, Caro has forever changed the way we think, and read, A