Robert Caro.
ROBERT CARO: LYNDON JOHNSON BIOGRAPHY VOL.4
THE PASSAGE OF POWER: THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON (2012)
Winner of the National Book Cfritics Circle Award.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Lyndon B. Johnson (born 1908) was a Democrat politician from Texas, who served from 1963 to 1969 as the 37th President of the USA. He was Vice President when President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
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Robert Caro (born 1935) is a journalist and author known for his much admired biographies of New York City planner Robert Moses and US President Lyndon Johnson. He has won many awards including two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography. He was born in New York City, the son of Jewish parents. He became a prolific writer from a young age. At Princeton his senior thesis ‘Heading Out: A Study of the Development of Ernest Hemingway Thought’ ran to 235 pages and caused the University to introduce a maximum length for senior theses.
