Caro, a philosophical liberal, admires Johnson’s legislative achievements, especially in the area of Civil Rights and voting rights. In the first four volumes, Caro has relentlessly explored what he calls the two dominant “threads” of Johnson’s life: political achievement and an unbounded hunger for power. When The Years of Lyndon Johnson is completed, Caro’s achievement will rank as one of the greatest American political biographies and perhaps the greatest study of the use and abuse of political power by an American politician. The fifth volume is projected to focus on Johnson’s Great Society legislation and his expansion of U.S. That was followed in 1990 by Means of Ascent, in 2002 by Master of the Senate, and in 2012 by The Passage of Power. Caro’s first volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, entitled The Path to Power, was published thirty years ago in 1982. Caro turned 86, and he continues to work on the fifth and final volume of his magisterial biography of Lyndon Johnson.
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