NP but Caro

[Mark Kohut]

I had to drive for a couple days straight and I had a CD of Caro's Master of the Senate. Even though this is abridged, the huge chunks
on topics--the 57 Civil Rights bill movement--"we have to do something for the niggers"; Sam Rayburn, lonely social misfit;  the evil perpetrated on so many African-Americans
and the ways they could be kept from registering to vote; Richard Russell, Southern institution & power broker, all show
how right the plisters are who praise this series.  Thanks,Maligned. 

And in volume the first,which I now have,the way he captured the meanings of The Texas Hill Country--freed and trapped the settlers--
in his single paragraph thematic headings is so artful.............. 

And Caro suffered for his art, and fought for his truths.....
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/robert-caros-big-dig.html?_r=2

There is an excerpt from the new volume about Johnson on assassination day in the New Yorker, I hear. (Wish they had
chosen another section but one can see why not)

Johnson was both for his day and against the day. Shakespearean,yes.