Pulitzer Prize Biography Winner
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by Robert Caro
Summary
Robert Caro devotes this third volume of his Lyndon Johnson series to the years Johnson dominated the United States Senate. The book details how he mastered an institution built to resist power, bending its rules and personalities to his will and engineering the 1957 civil rights bill. Caro uses Johnson's career to explain how legislative power actually works in America.
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Historical Context & Significance
Master of the Senate won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Biography as the third installment of Robert Caro's multi volume work The Years of Lyndon Johnson.