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Mixed set of Four volumes; Three stated first editions. Books Very Good condition, Dust Jackets Very Good. None are ex-library, book club or remainder copies. These books feature handsome black boards and gold embossing. All copies with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Other details below.This set is heavier than a standard book; S and H will be adjusted.The Path to Power ISBN 9780394499734 Stated First edition 1982, 882 pages.Tight and sound copy with undamaged corners, good hinges. Fading to bottom edges, Spotting on bottom edge. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with the usual shelf wear - a cut and a few wrinkles and chipsInscribed by author on first title page.Means of Ascent ISBN 9780394528359 Stated First edition 1990, 506 pages.Gift inscription on front endpapers. Some shelf wear to boards, fading on front edge. Spotting on front edge. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and stains.Master of the Senate ISBN 9780394528366 Stated Third printing May 2002, 1167 pages.Clean, tight, square copy. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear with undamaged corners. An unclipped dust jacket protected by Brodart cover with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips.The Passage of Power ISBN 9780679405078 Stated first edition 2012. Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Previous owner's signature on front endpapers. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear with undamaged corners. An unclipped dust jacket protected by Brodart cover with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips.======================================The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president-no era of American politics-has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson's political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered.We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate-coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon-raised in one of the country's most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father's slide into failure and financial ruin-lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate "impossible" goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be.We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates.We see him carrying out, before his thirtieth year, his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable "Mr. Sam" Rayburn (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself.And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the intensities and complications of his relationsh. Seller Inventory # 657389
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