Reissued as a Bodley Head trade paperback, the third instalment of 'the greatest biography of our era' The Times
Robert A. Caro has been described as 'the greatest political biographer of our times' (Sunday Times) and 'the most revered historian of his generation' (New York Times). His first book, The Power Broker, published in 1974, was described in 2015 as 'one of the greatest non-fiction works ever written' (Sunday Times) and his ongoing multi-volume work The Years of Lyndon Johnson has been described as 'the greatest biography of our era' (The Times). With these books he has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice won the National Book Award and three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also been awarded virtually every other major literary honour, including the National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, the highest award in the humanities given in the United States. Born in 1935, he graduated from Princeton University, later became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and was an investigative reporter for Newsday for six years. He lives with his wife, the writer Ina Caro, in New York City, where he is at work on the fifth and final volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
The greatest biography of our era … Essential reading for those who
want to comprehend power and politics
*The Times*
As if it were possible, Master of the Senate takes what was already
an outstanding multi-volume series on to a still higher plane. It
is, quite simply, the finest biography I have ever read, or ever
could imagine reading. It is more than that: it is one of the
finest works of literature I have ever encountered, or ever hope
to
*New Statesman*
The breathtaking detail makes it impossible to put down
*The Times*
Dazzling ... awesome ... Rarely will you come across a more
compelling account of the nature of great power and its
entanglement with massive personality. Rarely will you find another
biography which is such a fascinating study of how a bad man became
a power for the good
*Observer*
A wonderful, a glorious tale … It will be hard to equal this
amazing book … Caro’s description of how [Johnson passed the civil
rights legislation] is masterly; I was there and followed the
course of the legislation closely, but I did not know the half of
it
*New York Times Book Review*
Quite breathtaking ... one of the great political biographies
*Gordon Brown*
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