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The Path To Power

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Author : Robert A. Caro
language : en
Publisher: Bodley Head Childrens
Release Date : 2019-07-04

The Path To Power written by Robert A. Caro and has been published by Bodley Head Childrens this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-04 with Presidents categories.

'The greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The Times Robert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of twentieth-century America. This first instalment tells of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country, revealing in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy and ambition that set LBJ apart. It charts his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as a Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate and his attainment, nonetheless, at the age of thirty-one of the power for which he hungered.

The Path To Power

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Author : Robert A. Caro
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 1982-11-12

The Path To Power written by Robert A. Caro and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-11-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak. The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson’s political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered. We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate—coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon—raised in one of the country’s most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father’s slide into failure and financial ruin—lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate “impossible” goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be. We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates. We see him carrying out, before his thirtieth year, his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable “Mr. Sam” Raybum (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the intensities and complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters . . . Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson bullying, cajoling, lying, yet inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner (then Vice President of the United States) as the New Deal’s “connection” in Texas, and seize the power himself . . . Johnson raging . . . Johnson hugging . . . Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district’s first electric lines. We see him at once unscrupulous, admirable, treacherous, devoted. And we see the country that bred him: the harshness and “nauseating loneliness” of the rural life; the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. And always, in the foreground, on the move, LBJ. Here is Lyndon Johnson—his Texas, his Washington, his America—in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.

The Hand Of Power

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Author : Edgar Wallace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927

The Hand Of Power written by Edgar Wallace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Detective and mystery stories categories.

"Dr Joshua Laffin wants Betty Carew, whose childhood he tortured with fear, to advertise a desk for sale. For four hours each day she is to sit at it pretending to write, in a shop window laid out like a study. While she acts this role she is told to wait for someone to approach her. Pawter of Pawter Intensive Publicity Services wants Bill Holbrook to find out more. Bill suspects trouble. He claims someone told him that the desk was invented by a butler who was hanged for murdering his wife..."--goodreads.com.

Nazism 1919 1945 The Rise To Power 1919 1934

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Author : Jeremy Noakes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983

Nazism 1919 1945 The Rise To Power 1919 1934 written by Jeremy Noakes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.

Contains documents, including memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspaper articles, relating to Nazism.

The Transmission Of Power By Compressed Air

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Author : Robert Zahner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890

The Transmission Of Power By Compressed Air written by Robert Zahner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Compressed air categories.

The Esoteric

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

The Esoteric written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Occultism categories.

From Poverty To Power

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Author : James Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907

From Poverty To Power written by James Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with New Thought categories.

The French Communist Party In Transition

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Author : Annette E. Stiefbold
language : en
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Release Date : 1977

The French Communist Party In Transition written by Annette E. Stiefbold and has been published by Praeger Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Political Science categories.

Electric Transmission Of Power

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Author : Paget Higgs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879

Electric Transmission Of Power written by Paget Higgs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Electric power production categories.

Resolution Or The Soul Of Power

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Author : Azel Stevens Roe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871

Resolution Or The Soul Of Power written by Azel Stevens Roe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with American fiction categories.