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The most important, acclaimed, and galvanizing political

biography of our era--which began with The Path to Power--continues

in this national bestseller. In Means of Ascent Lyndon Johnson's

almost mythic personality is seen at its most nakedly ambitious.

The culminating drama--the explosive heart of the book--is Caro's

illumination of one of the great political mysteries of the

century, the "87 votes that changed history."

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   For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon

Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for

Biography, twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award for

Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and has also won virtually every

other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the

Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and

Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of

American Historians to the book that best "exemplifies the union of

the historian and the artist."

   To create his first book, The Power Broker:

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Caro spent seven years

tracing and talking with hundreds of men and women who worked with,

for, or against Robert Moses, including a score of his top

aides.  He examined mountains of files never open to the

public.  Everywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, The

Power Broker was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the

hundred greatest non-fiction books of the twentieth century. It is,

according to David Halberstam, "Surely the greatest book ever

written about a city." And The New York times Book

Review said: "In the future, the scholar who writes the

history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless

begin with this extraordinary effort."

   To research The Years of Lyndon Johnson,

Caro and his wife, Ina, moved from his native New York City to the

Texas Hill Country and then to Washington, D.C., to live in the

locales in which Johnson grew up and in which he built, while he

was still young, his first political machine.  He has spent

years examining documents at the Johnson Library in Austin and

interviewing men and women connected with Johnson's life,

many of whom had never before been interviewed. The first volume of

The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power, was cited by

The Washington Post as "proof that we live in a great age of

biography... [a book] of radiant excellence... Caro's evocation of

the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson's unsleeping

ambition, his understanding of how politics actually work, are—let

 it be said flat out—at the summit of American historical

writing." Professor Henry F. Graff of Columbia University called

the second volume, Means of Ascent, "brilliant.  No

review does justice to the drama of the story Caro is telling,

which is nothing less than how present-day politics was

born."  And the London Times hailed volume three,

Masters of the Senate, as "a masterpiece... Robert Caro has

written on of the truly great political biographies of the modern

age."

  "Caro has a unique place among American political

biographers," according to The Boston Globe.  "He has

become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are

measured."  And Nicholas von Hoffman wrote: "Caro has changed

the art of political biography."

   Caro graduated from Princeton University and

later became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.  He lives

in New York City with his wife, Ina, an historian and writer.

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The second installment in a projected four-volume biography of

LBJ that opened with The Path to Power, Means of Ascent shines a

harsh light on the early political years of one of America's most

paradoxical presidents. The man who would later ram civil rights

legislation through a reluctant Congress, and then be brought down

by Vietnam, came out of a political swamp--Caro gives a graphic

picture of the Texas democratic political machine at its most

corrupt. The climax of the book is LBJ's election to the Senate in

1948, an election he won by 87 dubious votes out of almost a

million. That vote arguably changed history. This book won the 1990

National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.

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Thrilling. Caro burns into the reader's imagination the story of

the [1948 Senate] election. Never has it been told so dramatically,

with breathtaking detail piled on incredible development . . .In

The Path to Power,

Volume I of his monumental biography,

Robert A. Caro ignited a blowtorch whose bright flame illuminated

Johnson's early career. In

Means of Ascent

he intensifies

the flame to a brilliant blue point. --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt,

New York Times

"Brilliant. No brief review does justice to the drama of the story

Caro is telling, which is nothing less than how present-day

politics was born." --Henry F. Graff, Professor of History,

Columbia University

"Riveting . . . Explosive . . . Readers are in for a white-knuckle,

hair-raising tale that could have ended in any of a dozen ways,

with L.B.J. in the White House the longest shot of all. This is

good history. Caro's treatment achieves poetic intensity." --Paul

Gray,

Time

"Caro has a unique place among American political biographers. He

has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are

measured. Caro's diligence [and] ambition are phenomenal . . . A

remarkable story . . . Epic." --Mark Feeney,

Boston Sunday

Globe

"Immensely engaging . . . Caro is an indefatigable investigative

reporter and a skillful historian who can make the most abstract

material come vibrantly to life. [He has a] marvelous ability to

tell a story . . . His analysis of how power is used---to build

highways and dams, to win elections, to get rich---is masterly."

--Ronald Steel,

New York Times Book Review

"Caro has changed the art of political biography." --Nicholas von

Hoffman

"A spellbinding, hypnotic journey into the political life and times

of Lyndon Johnson. Riveting drama." --Jim Finley,

Los Angeles

Times

"The most compelling study of American political power

and corruption since Robert Penn Warren's

All the King's

Men

.... It is nothing less than a political epic, the

definitive account of a watershed election, rich with all of the

intrigue and drama that have become the stuff of legend. [It has]

the suspense of a political thriller." --Steve Neal,

Fort Worth

Star Telegram

"His research is dazzlingly exhaustive, his gripping

story is enhanced by excellent writing, and his findings [seem]

largely irrefutable. No one has done a better job of researching

[the 1948 race] than Mr. Caro. He has produced a portrait not only

of Lyndon Johnson, but also of the politics and values of

mid-century America." --Philip Seib,

Dallas Morning News

"A great book, and I believe the completed biography will

be

the

great book about American politics in the twentieth

century. The story of the '48 election is remarkable, unique. If it

weren't a cliche, I'd say it has Tolstoyan epic grandeur." --Robert

K. Massie

"A spellbinding political thriller...riveting." --Arthur Salm,

San Diego Tribune

"No one understands Lyndon Baines Johnson without reading

Robert A. Caro." --James F. Vesely,

Sacramento Union

"We who are alive today are privileged to be present at

the creation of what, when it is completed, may rank as the most

riveting and disturbing American political biography of this

century . . . Magnificently written." --Theodore M. O'Leary,

Kansas City Star

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Review

an immensely engrossing and deeply disturbing tale . . . Mr. Caro

is an indefatigable investigative reporter and a skillful historian

who can make the most abstract material . . . come vibrantly to

life. --

New York Times Book Review, Ronald Steel