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Cringe before the A's majesty, all ye who would oppose them! Try to keep Rickey Henderson, the game's premier player, from stealing you blind; he's on the verge of eclipsing Lou Brock's all-time stolen-base record. Don't groove a pitch to Jose Canseco or...
MEANS OF ASCENT by Robert A. Caro (Knopf; $24.95). This second volume of an extended biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson offers a hair-raising, white- knuckle ride through the 1940s, when its hero-villain clawed, scrambled and cheated his way toward the political mountaintop.
At 6 a.m., another woman, Victoria Sanchez, does just that, catching a bus for the hour-long trip to Lyndon Baines Johnson General, a new brick public hospital that delivers 15,000 babies each year. Inside, its long halls reveal a modern-day baby factory. Low-birth-weight babies, smaller...
Good histories bestow suspense on foregone conclusions. Such works manage to override knowledge about how things turned out; they do so by recapturing the tensions and uncertainties of the participants while the outcome was in doubt. That Lyndon Baines Johnson, for example, became the 36th President will surprise no one...
Lyndon Baines Johnson may have been larger than life, but since his death 16 years ago, he has been getting bigger. The growth spurt is due largely to the diligence of Robert A. Caro, the biographer and political historian who has made L.B.J.'s saga into an obsession and virtually...