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The Passage of Power; The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by Caro, Robert A
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- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679405070
- ISBN 13
- 9780679405078
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/near fine. Signed first edition of The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro.. Thick octavo, xix, 712pp. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, touch of wear to the spine, dust remnant along top edge of text block. In publisher's near fine dust jacket, retail price on front flap, faint shelf wear, bright illustrations. Signed by Robert A. Caro in blue pen on the front free endpaper. A fine copy.
Synopsis
For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and for Best Biography, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best “exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.” In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama. The Passage of Power , volume four, has been called “Shakespearean … A breathtakingly dramatic story [told] with consummate artistry and ardor” ( The New York Times ) and “as absorbing as a political thriller . . . By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen, Caro has forever changed the way we think about, and read, American history” (NPR). On the cover of The New York Times Book Review , President Bill Clinton praised it as “Brilliant . . . Important . . .Remarkable. With this fascinating and meticulous account Robert Caro has once again done America a great service.” “Caro has a unique place among American political biographers,” according to The Boston Globe . “He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured.” And Nicholas von Hoffman wrote: “Caro has changed the art of political biography.”
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- Title
- The Passage of Power; The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- Author
- Caro, Robert A
- Illustrator
- Signed first edition of The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0679405070
- ISBN 13
- 9780679405078
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- Getting to the Heart of the Matter Levin, signed book Carl Levin, first edition Senator Carl Levin, Profiles in Courage Kennedy, The Path to Power Caro, Means of Ascent Caro, Master of the Senate Caro, The Passage of Power Caro, The Vantage Point Joh
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