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  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume III (Part 2 of a 3-Part Recording)
  • Von: Robert A. Caro
  • Gesprochen von: Grover Gardner
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Master of the Senate

Von: Robert A. Caro
Gesprochen von: Grover Gardner
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Master of the Senate, book three of the Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his 12 years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the audiobook is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. 

It was during these years that all Johnson’s experience—from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine—came to fruition. Caro introduces the story with a dramatic account of the Senate itself: how Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun had made it the center of governmental energy, the forum in which the great issues of the country were thrashed out. And how, by the time Johnson arrived, it had dwindled into a body that merely responded to executive initiatives, all but impervious to the forces of change. 

Caro anatomizes the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had made the seniority system all-powerful for a century and more, Johnson became majority leader after only a single term—the youngest and greatest Senate leader in our history; how he manipulated the Senate’s hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and strengths of his colleagues to change the unchangeable Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron-fisted control. 

Caro demonstrates how Johnson’s political genius enabled him to reconcile the unreconcilable: to retain the support of the Southerners who controlled the Senate while earning the trust—or at least the cooperation—of the liberals, led by Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey, without whom he could not achieve his goal of winning the presidency. He shows the dark side of Johnson’s ambition: how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds. And we watch him achieve the impossible: convincing Southerners that although he was firmly in their camp as the anointed successor to their leader, Richard Russell, it was essential that they allow him to make some progress toward civil rights. In a breathtaking tour de force, Caro details Johnson’s amazing triumph in maneuvering to passage the first civil rights legislation since 1875.   

Master of the Senate, told with an abundance of rich detail that could only have come from Caro’s peerless research, is both a galvanizing portrait of the man himself and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings and personal and legislative power.

This is Volume 2. Have you listened to Master of the Senate, Volume 1 yet? And don't forget Volume 3.
©2002 Robert A. Caro, Inc. (P)2002 Books on Tape, Inc.

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“A wonderful, a glorious tale.... It will be hard to equal this amazing book. It reads like a Trollope novel, but not even Trollope explored the ambitions and the gullibilities of men as deliciously as Robert Caro does. Even though I knew what the outcome of a particular episode would be, I followed Caro’s account of it with excitement. I went back over chapters to make sure I had not missed a word.... Caro’s description of how [Johnson passed the civil rights legislation] is masterly; I was there and followed the course of the legislation closely, but I did not know the half of it.” (Anthony Lewis, The New York Times Book Review

“A masterpiece.... Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age.” (Daniel Finkelstein, The Times, London)   

“Mesmerizing.... [It] brings LBJ blazing into the Senate.... A tale rife with drama and hypnotic in the telling. The historian’s equivalent of a Mahler symphony.” (Malcolm Jones, Newsweek)     

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Horribly put together!

Both the narrator and the author deserve five stars. However, overall, I have only given one star since this title is so badly put together that it becomes offensive.

It's bad enough that this volume is split in three parts, requiring the use of three credits (instead of one) for anyone who wishes to listen to the whole volume. This is the first time I have seen this on Audible. The deal is that if you are subscriber (as I am) you get one credit every month and it costs you the same whether you buy a 3 hour book or a 30 hour book. That's the way it is and I have certainly purchased books of over 50 hours of listening with just one credit. I don't understand why one needs to sacrifice three credits to listen to this particular title.

Be that as it may, if you decide to split up a title in three different parts, at least do it right! As in, getting Part 2 to start exactly where Part 1 stopped. Well, no! If you don't want to spend half an hour searching the title for the exact spot where Part 1 ended (hint: more than one chapter of Part 1 is repeated at the start of Part 2), then you have to re-listen to a great big chuck of the final chapters of Part 1. And as if that were not enough, the "chapters" in Part 2 do not correspond to the chapters of the book. Meaning that a book chapter ends and a new one begins in the middle of a "chapter" of the audio book; and that when an audio book "chapter" ends, the next one starts with a repetition of the last phrase of the previous chapter.

Get your act together, Audible!

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