Master of the Senate

Summary

The third volume of Caro's monumental biography "The Years of Lyndon Johnson" examines LBJ's transformation of the U.S. Senate during the 1950s into an instrument of personal power. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and interviews, Caro charts how Johnson mastered procedural minutiae and personal manipulation to push through the first major civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The volume is widely regarded as a landmark study of legislative power and political ambition.