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Nonfiction · Political biography

The Passage of Power

The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV
Robert A. Caro
2012 · 712 pages

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.

★ 6.7