{"product_id":"the-years-of-lyndon-johnson-4-volume-set-9780385351478","title":"The Years of Lyndon Johnson 4 Volume Set","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and for Best Biography of the Year, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best \"exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.\" In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaro's first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, \u003c\/i\u003eeverywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to David Halberstam, \"Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.\" And \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003esaid: \"In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power\u003c\/i\u003e, was cited by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003eas \"proof that we live in a great age of biography . . . [a book] of radiant excellence . . . Caro's evocation of the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson's unsleeping ambition, his understanding of how politics actually work, are--let it be said flat out--at the summit of American historical writing.\" Professor Henry F. Graff of Columbia University called the second volume, \u003ci\u003eMeans of Ascent\u003c\/i\u003e, \"brilliant. No review does justice to the drama of the story Caro is telling, which is nothing less than how present-day politics was born.\" The London \u003ci\u003eTimes \u003c\/i\u003ehailed volume three, \u003ci\u003eMaster of the Senate\u003c\/i\u003e, as \"a masterpiece . . . Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Passage of Power, \u003c\/i\u003evolume four, has been called \"Shakespearean ... A breathtakingly dramatic story [told] with consummate artistry and ardor\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"as absorbing as a political thriller ...By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen, Caro has forever changed the way we think about, and read, American history\" (NPR). On the cover of\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003ePresident Bill Clinton praised it as \"Brilliant . . . Important . . .Remarkable. With this fascinating and meticulous account Robert Caro has once again done America a great service.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Caro has a unique place among American political biographers,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003ehas said.. \"He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured.\" And according to the London \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Caro is \"The greatest political biographer of our times.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn and raised in New York City, Caro graduated from Princeton University, was later a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and worked for six years as an investigative reporter for \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City with his wife, Ina, the historian and writer.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50490168443154,"sku":"9780385351478","price":176.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_242de4bd-2827-4887-8d13-29f67c959c0b.jpg?v=1730514976","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-years-of-lyndon-johnson-4-volume-set-9780385351478","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}