![]() ![]() If you doubt me, read the reviews that this book produced on its publication in 1974, or that it keeps receiving now that it has at last been published in the UK. Fans of the West Wing have an answer for their famine.Īlmost the finest, because to stunning acclaim, Caro has also written the finest. Harrowing, vital, and gripping, it is almost the finest political biography that has been written. It describes how a master political animal became an unlikely Vice President and then, in probably the most shocking day in twentieth century politics, it recounts, minute by minute, how he became president, on a plane, after the assassination of Kennedy. Anyone with any pretension to political office in our country or the US has devoured this work as it has come out, and the most recent volume, The Passage to Power, is almost unimaginably good. ![]() He has a lifetime task of writing the biography of President Lyndon B. Caro is justifiably world-famous in a small niche: he is unquestionably the best political biographer of our day, and he is still working on one of the most remarkable biographies of our time. ![]() This has to be strangest book review I have ever attempted: a book about a man you’ve probably never heard of, written by a man you’ve probably never heard of and yet I want to persuade you that it’s one of the most remarkable books you will ever read, and whose theme is of stunning relevance. ![]()
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