![]() ![]() There's Herman Brown, the hard-eyed construction baron who fueled Johnson's rise by trading campaign contributions for lucrative government contracts. There's LBJ's daddy, Sam Johnson, the principled state legislator whose cotton farm went bust, casting the family into humiliating indigence. ![]() Caro's tireless research, discerning analysis and sharp pen have allowed him to create a mesmerizing world, populated by characters suitable for a Greek tragedy or an HBO series. "The Years of Lyndon Johnson" is my "Game of Thrones," the thing I jabber on about at the office water cooler. All things being equal, short is better than long, and I'm sure Caro could have trimmed plenty from his saga without weakening his case.īut to me, this is one of those rare instances where too much is not enough. ![]() Time is precious, and attention is limited. It's as if the 76-year-old author has made a deal for immortality, as long as he can just tease the reader into waiting another 10 years for him to get on with it. ![]() "At the same time, he wants to make sure that the reader is panting for the next installment to arrive, hence a lengthy tease to the next work-in-long-progress. Caro assumes the reader has not read any of the others in the series, so endlessly recounts what he wrote in them," Nelson wrote. ![]()
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