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Robert A Caro

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro

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November 2012, no. 346
Peter Heerey reviews 'The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The passage of power' by Robert A. Caro

In Australia today, Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–73) seems a fleeting figure on history’s stage: a brief interlude between Kennedy’s Camelot and Nixon’s Watergate – ‘All the way with LBJ!’ – the retreat from quagmire Vietnam – and that’s about it. So how does one justify buying and reading Robert A. Caro’s seven hundred-page book (dubbed ‘bloated’ by one critic), the fourth in a five-volume biography?

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