Master of the Senate

<p><b>&#145;The greatest biography of our era &#133; </b><b>Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics</b><b>&#146; <i>The Times</i></b><br><br>Robert A. Caro&#146;s legendary multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power political genius and the shaping of twentieth-century America.<br><br>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award <i>Master of the Senate</i> takes Johnson&#146;s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years from 1949 to 1960 in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody of itself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperately needed liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson&#146;s brilliance charm and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and most powerful Majority Leader in history and how he used his incomparable legislative genius &#150; seducing both Northern liberals and Southern conservatives &#150; to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction.</p>