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R.W. Johnson: LBJ, 20 March 2003
The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Vol III: Master of the Senate
by Robert A. Caro.
Cape, 1102 pp., £30, August 2002,0 394 52836 0 Show More
by Robert A. Caro.
Cape, 1102 pp., £30, August 2002,
“... else again. Whereas British political biography, with the (white) elephantine exception of Martin Gilbert’s Churchill is, almost as a matter of professional pride, a one-volume affair, there is a well established American tradition of monumentalism, based, it seems, on the assumption that a blockbusting person requires a blockbuster book. Caro seems ... ”