![]() ![]() ![]() When 1990 rolled around, I was around mid-career at the Chicago Tribune, and I was primed for the next Johnson book from Caro. ![]() ![]() I was a young newspaper reporter when I read those two books, and Caro was a journalist-turned-biographer who conducted research to a depth I’d never seen before (nor would see ever from anyone else) and wrote with a forceful passion that was better than any novel. In the early 1980s, I’d read his monumental biography of Robert Moses of New York City, The Power Broker (1974) - which, decades later, I still consider the best book ever written about an American city - and the first installment of his biography of Johnson, The Path to Power (1982), an engrossing, absorbing, riveting examination of the rise and early congressional career of the future president. Caro’s Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson in the spring of 1990, right after it was published. ![]()
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