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Original Title:	Means of Ascent
ISBN:	067973371X (ISBN13: 9780679733713)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Years of Lyndon Johnson #2
Characters:	Lyndon B. Johnson, Coke R. Stevenson
Literary Awards:	National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography (1990)

Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson #2)

Robert A. Caro

Paperback | Pages: 592 pages

Rating: 4.25 | 20612 Users | 575 Reviews

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Title	:	Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson #2)
Author	:	Robert A. Caro
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 592 pages
Published	:	March 6th 1991 by Vintage (first published March 7th 1990)
Categories	:	Biography. History. Politics. Nonfiction. North American Hi.... American History. Presidents. Biography Memoir

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Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues -- one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. In Means of Ascent the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer/historian, chronicler also of Robert Moses in The Power Broker, carries Johnson through his service in World War II and the foundation of his long-concealed fortune and the facts behind the myths he created about it. But the explosive heart of the book is Caro's revelation of the true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, for forty years shrouded in rumor, which Johnson had to win or face certain political death, and which he did win -- by "the 87 votes that changed history." Caro makes us witness to a momentous turning point in American politics: the tragic last stand of the old politics versus the new -- the politics of issue versus the politics of image, mass manipulation, money and electronic dazzle.

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What was I thinking? I have read every word Caro has written, but I had imagined I could skip this one because nothing really happened and I'd already read the over 200o pages of the Johnson series. But I had forgotten why I had been reading them in the first place. It wasn't about plot or to find out what happened or didn't happen to Johnson. It was to read Caro write! Duh. The man is the best writer I've ever read and I have fully atoned for my error in believing that it was a good idea to

In reading Caros second volume of the LBJ biography series, I was completely blown away. While some call it the lesser exciting of Caros first two volumes depicting LBJs Texas life and early congressional years, I felt that it helped shape the image of the president I knew from the history books. Means of Ascent is by no means a shrinking violet in the literary world, though its action does, perhaps, pale when placed against its older sibling, Path to Power. Still, Caro brings to life those

The second volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson tells the story of LBJ's rise from a mere Congressman, one with little hope for significant advancement, to his unlikely election to the U.S. Senate. The majority of the pages describe Johnson's relentless, ruthless, expensive, and dishonest campaign against former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson for the 1948 Democratic nomination, which Johnson officially (but far from legitimately) won by 87 votes.Texas at the time was a one-party state with the

Great book.The author chronicles the life of LBJ from 1941 to 1948 in 3 acts: - His record as a naval officer in the Pacific (where Johnson spent a total of 13 minutes in combat zone despite all the fake stories he made up to appeal to Texas voters)- His acquisition of a radio station to make some money outside of politics - the 1948 democratic senate race against Coke Stevenson I enjoy reading Caro for his taste of details and description of Texas politics. Only minor critic is that Stevenson

This volume of Robert Caro's epic multivolume biography of Lyndon Johnson would seem to be inessential. LBJ is cast to the political wilderness after the death of FDR, his greatest booster, and from the description, it sounds like it will be Lyndon kicking a can down a dusty road and feeling sorry for himself. Do not be deterred! I enjoyed it even more than the first volume. It has personal intrigue, cutthroat business deals, vicious political maneuvering, courtroom drama, and my favorite thing,

In my view the best of the 3 Caro books on Johnson. (All are great.) He made me care about Coke Stephenson someone I'd never heard of before. I'm just hopefully Caro stays healthy enough to finish this wonderful series.

To say that Means of Ascent does not reach the towering heights of Caro's first volume of his Years of Lyndon Johnson is no slight. Path to Power is one of the greatest feats of biography I've ever read. The only reason Means falls short is because it happens to dwell on LBJ's wilderness years. This was the time between his first failed senate run, during a special election, and his second, successful senate run, which culminated in the famed "87 votes that changed America." During these 7