Anybody read "The Years of Lyndon Johnson" by Robert Caro?

[Jara sang]

I bought a used copy of 'The Path to Power' and started reading that, but I guess 'Master of the Senate' is the seminal book of the three part biography. I worked for a gentleman in Virginia who was living in the house that was owned by George and Herman Brown(Kellogg, Brown & Root now Halliburton) that they leased to Johnson as a "Week-end Whitehouse". Some interesting stories there. That is why I would like to read the biography as the house is mentioned often in the books. I think it's only 3000 pages long, each book being about a thousand pages. Anybody read the Caro biography?

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Nope. I read "Flawed Giant" by Robert Dallek a long time ago.

Interesting read, if I remember right.

[unhappycamper]

2. I read the first two books - pretty good reading.

Never got around to the third one.

[Jara sang]

4. Flipping around, reading here and there, it looks fascinating.

VERY thorough

[Zen Democrat]

3. Caro is not through. He's writing now about the White House years.

Starting with Vice-Presidency and the Kennedy Assassination. I saw a program on C-Span last year with Caro doing a Q&A at the Johnson Library.

Caro will go down in history as the definitive LBJ biographer.

[Jara sang]

5. No doubt. 3000 pages

and the 'The Years of Lyndon Johnson' only covers his Senate years. Holy mackerel!

[Skink]

6. There is a book out there called The Tradgedy of Lyndon Johnson

About how he had to deal with the RW forces that led us into Vietnam and all the while was able to usher in voting rights and Medicare. The same type of people that Clinton dealt with were around then.