The culminating drama-the explosive heart of the book-is Caro’s illumination, based on extraordinarily detailed investigation, of one of the great political mysteries of the century. This multifaceted book carries the President-to-be from the aftermath of his devastating defeat in his 1941 campaign for the Senate-the despair it engendered in him, and the grueling test of his spirit that followed as political doors slammed shut-through his service in World War II (and his artful embellishment of his record) to the foundation of his fortune (and the actual facts behind the myth he created about it).
Here, Johnson’s almost mythic personality-part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating-is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A.
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