Book · 2012 · Nonfiction

The Passage of Power

The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV
Vintage Books, A division of Random House, Inc. (Penguin Random House) · 712 pages
★ 6.7 editorial score

Three years of humiliation as Kennedy's vice president, then Dallas, and Johnson seizes a stunned government. Caro tracks it week by week to the civil rights bill the South had blocked for decades.