NP but Caro

[rich]

Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is recommended as well.

rich

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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