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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by Robert A. Caro
by Robert A. Caro
Maybe the single greatest book on how politics in modern America works. This is the third of a projected four-volume bio on LBJ, and the first two were superior books, but this thing is a masterpiece. To my thinking, it's the second greatest history book written about America.
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Aug 29, 2008 11:33am
Funny, I just printed that out for my father, who is working on a Civil Rights oral history that at one point was titled, "How Many Bubbles in a Bar of Soap."
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The History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Adams. But there must be oodles of others that are just as good, right?
I'm at a disadvantage, never having read that book by James. But Edmund Morris' three volumes about TR are tough to beat as both biography and literature. Robert Remini's single volume about Henry Clay, although biography, captures, I think, America on the brink. I rank these with Caro.May, 2012, the 4th volume of Caro's LBJ will be published. With one more volume to follow, if I live long enough to read it.
