The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate

At the heart of Master of the Senate is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works, how the U.S. Senate works, how Lyndon Johnson, on his way to the presidency, mastered both, and how he used his power to break the southern control of Capitol Hill and to pass the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. Interweaving his narrative with a brilliantly astute and concise history of the Senate, Caro shows us how political initiatives triumph or fail and how political genius functions.