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  • The Passage of Power

  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4
  • De : Robert A. Caro
  • Lu par : Grover Gardner
  • Durée : 32 h et 45 min
  • 4,3 out of 5 stars (3 notations)
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De : Robert A. Caro
Lu par : Grover Gardner
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    National Book Critics Circle Award, Biography, 2013

    The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career - 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark.

    For the first time, we see the Kennedy assassination through Lyndon Johnson’s eyes. We watch Johnson step into the presidency, inheriting a staff fiercely loyal to his slain predecessor; a Congress determined to retain its power over the executive branch; and a nation in shock and mourning. We see how within weeks - grasping the reins of the presidency with supreme mastery - he propels through Congress essential legislation that at the time of Kennedy’s death seemed hopelessly logjammed and seizes on a dormant Kennedy program to create the revolutionary War on Poverty.

    Caro makes clear how the political genius with which Johnson had ruled the Senate now enabled him to make the presidency wholly his own. This was without doubt Johnson’s finest hour, before his aspirations and accomplishments were overshadowed and eroded by the trap of Vietnam.

    It is an epic story told with a depth of detail possible only through the peerless research that forms the foundation of Robert Caro’s work, confirming Nicholas von Hoffman’s verdict that “Caro has changed the art of political biography.”

    ©2012 Robert A. Caro (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

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    Trapped !

    At this stage, after the half of the book (around the last third), I was really wondering when Caro would seriously bring us on VIETNAM...
    He does, but so far in this fourth book that after a while you learn it would took another volume -- so the fifth (at least) -- to set this !

    For my part, despite his Pullizer, I do not like so much this work of CARO ; it's a far too long biography because its length is not at all justified by its content : too much repetitions ; far too slow evolution etc. as I already said. For instance, others authors do better on this ground, like Manchester -- often quoted by CARO -- or Lacouture for his "De Gaulle").

    Whatever we could say now, we are trapped -- as I wrote -- because we will have to take the last book which is not yet published ; in fact CARO hasn't finished it for the moment...

    At least then, I expect we won't miss in the last book, hopefully the real ultimate but not the least (pray for it), the wonderfull adventure of Abe Fortas in the USCO which is astonishing & fully evocative of LBJ : simply a superb tale in the whole story, ultimately involving the senate.

    However, so far I know that CARO is rather old now -- he is 84 (he sarted his LBJ in mid '70s passing 40) -- he may not be able to make it. So let's wish he will finish it -- to set the home run !

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