Master of the Senate

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   Master Of The Senate Vintage B - Years Of Lyndon Johnson - Robert A. Caro

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The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro&rsquo;s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues.<b>Master of the Senate</b> takes Johnson&rsquo;s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics, by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody of itself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperately needed liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson&rsquo;s brilliance, charm, and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and most powerful Majority Leader in history and how he used his incomparable legislative genius--seducing both Northern liberals and Southern conservatives--to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction. Brilliantly weaving rich detail into a gripping narrative, Caro gives us both a galvanizing portrait of Johnson himself and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings of legislative power.