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...case is easier to make for Johnson and Nixon. Morrow argues that Johnson’s Senate primary race against Coke Stevenson that year began LBJ’s legacy of deceit. Morrow borrows heavily from Robert Caro??s excellent biography, “Means of Ascent,” to describe the shameless way Johnson misleadingly portrayed his more conservative opponent as a lackey of big labor. Johnson won the primary after a local political boss “corrected a mistake” in the ballots for one precinct...
Many readers have praised the accessibility of Caro??s books, which often readi more like novels than history...
Another of the skills that many laud in Caro??s work is his passionate commitment to research. The writer actually moved south with his wife to get to the root of Johnson’s Texas hill country upbringing. With her help, he interviewed hundreds of witnesses to various events, often going back two or three times “trying to recreate the meetings that took place...
...Caro??s first work, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, won him the 1975 Pulitzer...
...survives. A natural leader, Pai grows up striving to overcome the odds of gender oppression in her tribe and engages in a quest for the title of chief. The performance is moving and well acted, although meanings of some tribal references are lost on Western audiences. Director Niki Caro??s shots beautifully capture the picturesque scenery of coastal New Zealand. Whale Rider screens...