The comprehensive biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Ted reviews the four-volume (and counting) biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson by author Robert A. Caro.

Scott Simon talks with Robert Caro, author of Master of the Senate, about Lyndon Johnson's years as Senate majority leader. Mr. Caro says Senator Johnson corralled support for issues on his agenda by ...

As you say, the first thing any reader has to reckon with in reading Master of the Senate is its size. It's not just the sheer length of 1,167 pages, nor simply that those 1,167 pages cover only ...

This work is a one volume abridgment of Dallek's 2-volume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson v. 1. Lone star rising (1991); v. 2, Flawed giant (1998). The making of a politician -- The Congressman -- The ...

For President's Day, we speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Robert Caro about the life of Lyndon Johnson. To understand his subject, Caro moved to the Texas Hill country to meet friends and ...

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, also known as the LBJ Presidential Library, is one of 13 Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. The ...

Johnson between Hubert Humphrey (l) and Richard Russell. From The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate. The first volume of Robert Caro’s protracted meditation on the dark side of Lyndon ...

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Almost 40 years after he left the White House, public perceptions of Lyndon B. Johnson remain shrouded in myth and caricature. Several generations of spinmeisters have hammered in the idea that this ...

The torrent of action on education and the reminiscence about it that pour from the White House is forceful evidence that its occupant recalls his own school days with singular relish and vividness.