Caro

[malignd at aol.com]

You're right.  The blurb on Amazon says only through 1964.  So the great society, Vietnam, late life, still to come.  This happened with volume 2 which Caro ended up devoting, against his initial plan, to the senate race against Coke Stevenson.



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Sorry. Er, sorry? Not the last -- the new volume only takes LBJ up to assuming the presidency. Once again, Caro alters the plan and extends the project -- he's in his mid-70s now and I despair of him finishing. It's certainly one of the greatest projects of American biography ever.
  
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The fourth and last volume of Robert Caro's   biography of Lyndon Johnson available May 1.  I'd put this -- the entire   four volumes -- in the top ... five? -- not only of history, but literature in   the last fifty years.
 
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