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 Flak Magazine: Master of the Senate, Part Five, 05-31-02
"Master of the Senate" is the third book in Robert A. Caro's series, "The Years of Lyndon Johnson." It is more than 1,000 pages long.
Caro's cunning roadmap emerges in the middle of "Master of the Senate." Lyndon Johnson did three things to achieve dominance of the Senate and real national prominence.
To lock up his hold on the Senate, Johnson courted, seduced and maintained the favor of Georgia Senator Richard Russell, the Senate's dominant Democrat and one of the most powerful men in American politics.
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 Robert Caro -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The third and last published volume, (additional info and facts about Master of the Senate) Master of the Senate (2002) chronicles Johnson's rapid ascent and rule as (Leader of the majority party in a legislature) Majority Leader in the Senate and garnered Caro a second (additional info and facts about Pulitzer Prize) Pulitzer Prize.
The work, entitled The Years of Lyndon Johnson will eventually comprise four volumes.
Caro discovered, for example, that Johnson "won" the Senate election of 1948 due to massive fraud and ballot box stuffing.
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 U.S. Senate: Reference Home > Reference Home > Books > Master of the Senate
Master of the Senate, the third volume in Robert A. Caro's award-winning series The Years of Lyndon Johnson, focuses on Johnson's twelve years in the U.S. Senate.
U.S. Senate: Reference Home > Reference Home > Books > Master of the Senate
Home > Reference Home > Reference Home > Books > Master of the Senate
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 Southern Cultures: Master of the Senate: the Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3.(Book Review)@ HighBeam Research
Master of the Senate The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3 By Robert A. Caro Alfred A. Knopf, 2002 1,167 pp.
Master of the Senate: the Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3.(Book Review)
Southern Cultures: Master of the Senate: the Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3.(Book Review)@ HighBeam Research
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 Amazon.com: Master of the Senate : The Years of LBJ, Vol. III (Vintage): Books: Robert A. Caro
Robert Caro's Master of the Senate examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnson's career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his election as JFK's vice president in 1960.
Caro, Robert A.: Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson).
"Master of the Senate" is a history of LBJ, the U.S. Senate and American politics from 1948-1960.
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate
Master of the Senate doesn’t move as gracefully as the classic first book — in fact, it starts off rather slowly, with a 100-page mini-history of the Senate — but it’s more engaging than the second, even though it’s more than twice as long.
Landing in the Senate by the skin of his teeth — a miracle of legal maneuvering having allowed him to get away with the 202 votes he supposedly bought to knock off Coke Stevenson — Johnson quickly turns the place into his own fiefdom.
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 The Making of LBJ; A review of Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate
Master of the Senate ends with a vignette that captures the problem with Johnson in a way that Caro probably doesn't fully appreciate.
Caro's thorough narrative will be well worth waiting for, but Master of the Senate leaves us with the feeling that he will resolve neither his ambivalence nor our doubts about this giant figure.
Johnson was not that Left Wing in his Senate years, in part because his power was derived from Richard Russell and the Southern Caucus, and in part because he decided to align himself with Eisenhower to point up the tensions between Senate Republicans and the President on many matters.
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 Borders - Feature - The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate.
And it was Lyndon Johnson who gave the Senate its schedule—in a tone of authority that let the Senate know that it was he, and he alone, who was establishing that schedule.
With the senator's continued presence thus assured, the first Johnson arm, the one that had been resting on the back of the couch, would stretch along it, so that the senator was almost completely surrounded.
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 - SHOP.COM
This third installment of Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson presents an unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works, how the U.S. Senate works, and how Johnson mastered both on his way to the presidency.
Caro relates how Johnson broke southern control of Capitol Hill to pass the first civil rights legislation since the Reconstruction.
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 Amazon.com: Books: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The story of this volume is Johnson's transformation from a typical Southern Senator, with all the baggage that entails, to the man who masterminded the passage of the first Civil Rights law in one hundred years.
There were no more Johnson accomplishments to match the drama of the civil rights battle, and Caro saves the story of Johnson's fight for both the Democratic presidential nomination and a third term in the Senate for an upcoming fourth volume on the LBJ saga.
But that bill, in Johnson's crude way of phrasing, had broken the Senate's virginity on the matter of civil rights, so that in the future other civil rights bills could be pushed through more easily.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394528360?v=glance   (191 words)

  
 Kliatt: Master of the Senate - Book Review
In this third volume in his series The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Caro provides a frank, detailed look at Johnson's life during his 12-year tenure in the U.S. Senate (1949-1960).
As leader of the Senate, he proved to be a master politician who could unite disparate groups, turn opportunities to his own advantage, and solve what looked like unsolvable problems.
Kliatt: Master of the Senate - Book Review
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 H-Net Review: KC Johnson on Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
The average age of Senators crept upwards throughout the century; by the time Johnson entered the Senate, most committee chairmen were in their late sixties or seventies.
The book has three principal arguments: that Johnson's assumption of power revealed elements of his character; that the 1950s presented a transformative period in the Senate's institutional history; and that as the 1950s progressed, Johnson's personal ambition and the public good increasingly pointed to the same policy options.
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 President Lyndon Johnson: Health & Medical History
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
As I turned to continue to Trauma Room 1, there was Lyndon Johnson, being ushered into one of the minor-medicine cubicles...
Alternate index terms: Medical history of President Johnson, Medical history of President Lyndon B. Johnson, Medical history of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Medical history of LBJ.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson at Epinions.com
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Caro’s epic study of Lyndon Johnson has reached the third of a scheduled four volumes, and it’s another masterful performance.
Speaking of genius, Master of the Senate runs to over a thousand pages, many devoted to the minutia of political maneuvering, yet it’s hard to put down.
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 Barnes & Noble.com - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Robert A. Caro - Hardcover
The third volume of Robert A Caro’s triptych The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Master of the Senate, covers his years in the US Senate from 1948-60.
Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate.
Master of the Senate is vintage Caro--a portrait so deft, vivid, and compelling that you practically feel LBJ gripping your arm and bending you to his will.
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 Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro, reviewed by Powells.com
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
These were the twelve years during which Johnson rose from freshman solon to Senate Majority Leader, one of the most powerful majority leaders in the history of the chamber.
The most significant event recounted in the book is Johnson ramroding the Civil Rights Act of 1957 through the Senate.
www.powells.com /review/2002_05_11.html   (579 words)

  
 Book Review - Master of the Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson -Reviewed Wayne A. Smith
Book Review - Master of the Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson -Reviewed Wayne A. Smith
Covering the ten years of the 1950's, it looks at Johnson's Senate career.
The general public will be fascinated by the utterly gripping and unforgettable portrait of a man who truly was the "Master of the Senate."
www.juntosociety.com /bookreview/ws_ms_020403.html   (553 words)

  
 Master of the Senate - The Years of Lyndon Johnson - The Yale Review of Books
Master of the Senate - The Years of Lyndon Johnson - The Yale Review of Books
In Master of the Senate, the focus shifts from Texas to Washington, to the story of how a first-term senator, elected by the slimmest and most dubious of margins, became the most powerful majority leader in Senate history.
A virtuoso of biography, he cuts to the heart of his subject, evoking the scope of Johnson's personality and achievements in a book as massive and absorbing as the master himself.
www.yalereviewofbooks.com /archive/fall02/review17.shtml.htm   (550 words)

  
 Master of the Senate - Mises Institute
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate.
By 1968, this former "master of the Senate," this once-popular president who had won a lopsided victory in the 1964 election by charging that Barry Goldwater would start World War III, was so hated that he restricted his public appearances primarily to military bases.
This third book in Caro's series begins with LBJ's arrival in the U.S. Senate as a junior senator--a seat he stole his way into after a crooked 1948 Texas election, a bit of skullduggery which Caro documented in Means of Ascent, the previous installment of this series.
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 Master of the Senate: Robert A. Caro: ISBN 0553712918
This book is part of the Caro, Robert A. Years of Lyndon Johnson, 3.
Master of the Senate: Robert A. Caro: ISBN 0553712918
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 What Books: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Award Winner
Robert Caro's Master of the Senate examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnson's career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his election as JFK's vice president in 1960.
What Books: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Award Winner
To research The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Caro and his wife, Ina, moved from his native New York City to the Texas Hill Country and then to Washington, D.C., to live in the locales in which Johnson grew up and in which he built, while still young, his first political machines.
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 Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro, reviewed by The New Republic Online
Master of the Senate has been published twelve years after the previous volume of the biography, Means of Ascent, and it is meant to cover Johnson's career in the Senate, which also lasted twelve years.
Over the years I have occasionally encountered politicians who were using Caro's biography of Johnson as a kind of handbook, a step-by-step guide to the climbing of the government ladder.
Johnson is desperately ambitious to be elected president, and he realizes that he cannot accomplish this from a position as the fair-haired boy of the Senate's Southern caucus.
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 Borzoi Reader Authors Robert A. Caro
Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.
Master of the Senate is told with an abundance of rich detail that could only have come from Caro’s peerless research—years immersed in the worlds of Johnson and the United States Senate, examining thousands of documents and talking to hundreds of people, from pages and cloakroom clerks to senators and administrative aides.
Caro demonstrates how Johnson’s political genius enabled him to reconcile the unreconcilable: to retain the support of the southerners who controlled the Senate while earning the trust—or at least the cooperation—of the liberals, led by Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey, without whom he could not achieve his goal of winning the presidency.
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 Amazon.com: Books: The Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Vintage)
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Vol.1: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
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