1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert Caro
In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. Here, Johnson’s almost mythic personality—part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating—is seen at …