![]() In the era of Trump, in which many decry the lack of presidential decorum, the pettiness, the crudeness, and the meanness of the occupant of the Oval Office, I would suggest, without commenting on the political factors or other virtues or lack thereof, that LBJ had Trump beat in every respect. ![]() Lyndon Baines Johnson was a magnificent, despicable, ingenious, unscrupulous, complicated bastard. ![]() Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, was a number-one national best seller and, like The Path to Power, received the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this book, we are brought as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered. ![]() The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. ![]()
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