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...Master of the Senate, Caro follows Johnson??s career through his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the U.S. Senate, along the way elucidating how legislative power works in America. “Nothing in LBJ’s career was more important than his rise to power in the Senate,” Caro explains...
...with power that eventually led Caro to Johnson, who once said, “I do understand power, whatever else may be said of me.” Caro describes many methods Johnson discovered to gain power, from House Speaker Sam Rayburn’s paternal affection for Ladybird, Johnson??s wife, to his ruthless annihilation of Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds’s career...
Proceeding from the idea that “power reveals,” Caro argued that “once he had acquired power in the Senate, [Johnson??s] compassion shines forth...
Describing the passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Bill as Johnson??s “greatest accomplishment,” Caro called him the greatest white champion of civil rights since Abraham Lincoln...
When asked during the question and answer session if “the means justify the ends”—if Johnson??s beneficent legislation justified the ruthless tactics he employed to attain power—Caro did not give a definitive response...