Anthony caro biography of lyndon
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Historian Robert Caro has been meticulously documenting Lyndon B. Johnson's life for more than three decades, and with his fourth weighty LBJ volume, The Passage of Power, due out May 1, the Pulitzer–winning biographer has published a long sneak preview in The New Yorker.
Anthony caro biography of lyndon
The excerpt, in the April 2 issue of the magazine, recounts perhaps the most fateful day in Johnson's life, and among the most traumatic for the country — the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov.
22, 1963 — from LBJ's perspective. Here, five key revelations from Caro's "gripping new essay":
1. LBJ was convinced his career was over
The morning JKF was assassinated, Johnson had good reason to fear that he wasn't going to be vice president in a second Kennedy term.
A Washington scandal was heating up involving an LBJ protégé, Bobby "Little Lyndon" Baker; a gaggle of Life reporters was plotting an exposé on Johnson's murky person