1990, ISBN: 9780394528359

New York: A Borzoi Book Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990. BOOK: Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped… Mehr…

New York: A Borzoi Book Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990. BOOK: Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. With 32 pages of photographs. BOOK NUMBER: 3/90. ALSO KNOWN AS: Portions of this work were originally published in The New Yorker. MAP: Jean Paul Tremblay. JACKET DESIGN BY: R. D. Scudellari. CONTENTS: Introduction: Ends and Means PART I "Too Slow" PART II The Old and the New; Debts, Bibliography, Notes; Index; Photographs follow pages 62, 158 and 286. SYNOPSIS: Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson continues--one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. It is the magnum opus of a writer perfectly suited to his task: the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer-historian, chronicler also of Robert Moses in The Power Broker, whose inspired research and profound understanding of the nature of ambition and the dynamics of power have made him a peerless explicator of political lives. The Path to Power, the first book of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, was greeted on its publication with a wave of acclaim, received the National Book Critics Circle Award and became a nationwide best-seller. And now, with the narrative passion and the unique gift for making us grasp the way the world really works that distinguish all his writing, Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. In Means of Ascent, Johnson's almost mythic personality--part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating--is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. This multifaceted book carries the President-to-be from the aftermath of his devastating defeat in his 1941 campaign for the Senate--the despair it engendered in him, and the grueling test of his spirit that followed as political doors slammed shut--through his service in World War II (and his artful embellishment of his record) to the foundation of his fortune (and the actual facts behind the myth he created about it). The culminating drama--the explosive heart of the book--is Caro's illumination, based on extraordinarily detailed investigation, of one of the great political mysteries of the century. Having immersed himself for fourteen years in Johnson's life and world, tracking down hundreds of people who knew LBJ in Texas, in Washington and across the country, Caro is able to reveal the true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, for forty years shrouded in rumor, which Johnson was not believed capable of winning, which he "had to" win or face certain political death, and which he did win--by 87 votes, the "87 votes that changed history." Telling that epic story in riveting and eye-opening detail, Caro returns to the American consciousness a magnificent lost hero. He focuses closely not only on Johnson, whom we see harnessing every last particle of his strategic brilliance and energy, but on Johnson's "unbeatable" opponent, the beloved former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson, who embodied in his own life the myth of the cowboy knight and was himself a legend for his unfaltering integrity. And ultimately, as the political duel between the two men quickens--carrying with it all the confrontational and moral drama of the perfect Western--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. Means of Ascent is the second book in a multivolume work that will stand as the political biography of our time. Robert A. Caro is the author of The Path to Power and The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, he has won the Francis Parkman Prize (awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that "best represents the union of the historian and the artist"), the H. L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Mr. Caro was graduated from Princeton University, later became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and was for seven years an investigative reporter for Newsday. He was born in New York City, where he and his wife, Ina, now live.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., A Borzoi Book Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990, 5<

1990, ISBN: 9780394528359

Knopf, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 560 Seiten, Publiziert: 1990-03-07T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780394528359, 0.98 kg, Verkaufsrang: 976915, Vereinigte… Mehr…

Knopf, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 560 Seiten, Publiziert: 1990-03-07T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780394528359, 0.98 kg, Verkaufsrang: 976915, Vereinigte Staaten, Geschichte, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Kategorien, Bücher, Politisch, Herausragende Persönlichkeiten, Militär, Präsidenten & Staatsoberhäupter, USA, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Moderne & Postmoderne, Epochen, Frauen in der Geschichte, Geschichte nach Themen, Politikwissenschaft, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Rough Cut Asins, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_5701, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Format: Illustriert, Rauer Buchschnitt, Knopf, 1990<

1990, ISBN: 9780394528359

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.… Mehr…

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990, 2.5<

1990, ISBN: 0394528352

[EAN: 9780394528359], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf], Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. P… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780394528359], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf], Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s)., Books<