Master of the senate / Robert A. Caro.

Author: Caro, Robert A.

Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.

Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2003.

ISBN: 0394720954
9780394720951

Description: xxiv, 1167 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: The years of Lyndon Johnson ; [3]

Subject: Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
Presidents United States Biography.
United States Politics and government 1933-1945.
United States Politics and government 1945-

Contents: Introduction: The Presence of Fire -- The Dam -- The Desks of the Senate -- "Great Things Are Underway!" -- Seniority and the South -- Learning -- A Hard Path -- The Path Ahead -- "The Right Size" -- A Russell of the Russells of Georgia -- "We of the South" -- Thirtieth Place -- Lyndon Johnson and the Liberal -- The Hearing -- The Debate -- "No Time for a Siesta" -- Out of the Crowd -- Looking for it -- No Choice -- The General and the Senator -- The "Nothing Job" -- The Johnson Ranch -- The Orator of the Dawn -- Gettysburg -- The Whole Stack -- Using it -- Masterstrokes -- Tail-Gunner Joe -- The "Johnson Rule" -- The Leader -- "Zip, Zip" -- "Go Ahead with the Blue" -- Memories -- The Program with a Heart -- The Great Cause -- The Rising Tide -- The Compassion of Lyndon Johnson -- "Proud to Be of Assistance" -- Footsteps -- Finesses -- Convention -- Choices -- The "Working Up" -- Hells Canyon -- "You Do It" -- Yeas and Nays -- Omens -- After the Battle -- Three More Years -- The Last Caucus --