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The Path to Power
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Book 1

The Path to Power (1982) (edit title/settings)

by Robert A. Caro (Author) (edit contributors)

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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal... read more

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ON THE DAY HE WAS BORN, he would say, his white-haired grandfather leaped onto his black stallion and thundered across the Texas Hill Country, reining in at every farm to shout: "A United States Senator was born this morning!"

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Introduction

PART I: THE TRAP
1. The Bunton Strain
2. The People's Party
3. The Johnson Strut
4. The Father and Mother
5. The Son
6. "The Best Man I Ever Knew"
7. "The Bottom of the Heap"

PART II: ESCAPE
8. "Bull" Johnson
9. The Rich Man's Daughter
10. Cotulla
11. White Stars and Black Stars
12. "A Very Unusual Ability"

PART III: SOWING
13. On His Way
14. The New Deal
15. The Boss of the Little Congress
16. In Tune
17. Lady Bird
18. Rayburn
19. "Put Them to Work!"
20. The Dam

PART IV: REAPING
21. The First Campaign
22. From the Forks of the Creeks
23. Galveston
24. Balancing the Books
25. Longlea
26. The Tenth District
27. The Sad Irons
28. "I'll Get It for You"

PART V: NEW FIELDS
29. Mr. Johnson Goes to Washington
30. A Contract and Three Telegrams
31. Campaign Committee
32. The Munsey Building
33. Through the Back Door

PART VI: DEFEAT
34. "Pass the Biscuits, Pappy"
35. "I Want to See Lyndon"
36. "Mister Speaker"
37. The "Perfect Roosevelt Man"

Debts, Bibliography, Notes
Index

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This is book 1 of 4 in The Years of Lyndon Johnson. (standard series)

Followed by Means of Ascent.

This is book 12 of 113 in Book Smart Reading List. (community list)

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  1. Robert A. Caro (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Inc
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1982
ISBN: 0394499735
Page Count: 960

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