![]() ![]() “The Passage of Power” is the fourth of what is now planned to be five volumes of Caro’s biography “The Years of Lyndon Johnson” - an astonishing and unprecedented in-depth look at the life of a public figure and his era, passionately researched and written, a work of great literature, among the best non-fiction works ever.Ĭaro has been working on LBJ since 1974, and originally, he did not envision the need for “The Passage of Power.”Īs initially laid out, “The Years of Lyndon Johnson” was to comprise three volumes - one on his rise from poverty in the Hill Country of Texas a second about his years in the U.S. Instead, he has made his case, brick by brick by brick, slowly, inexorably, pulling together many disparate stories involving sometimes world-jarring events, and laying them out in great detail and with great insight. ![]() And it is a word that, up until this moment in the book, Caro has avoided using. ![]() It is a word that has rarely, if ever, been used in American discourse about LBJ. On the final page of “The Passage of Power,” Robert Caro sums up the 604 pages that have come before with a single word. ![]()
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