NP but Caro

[Robert Mahnke]

Robert Caro's The Power Broker, about Robert Moses and New York City,
is well worth reading, and although it is an imposing tome it will
seem short if you compare it to the Johnson series.

On 4/12/12, 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.
>