We've written before about our unabashed admiration for Robert Caro's towering and ongoing multi-volume LBJ biography. A tweet from Lisa Gray alerts us to a ...

Lyndon B. Johnson, a poor, rural Texan who became a vice president and president only to see his unprecedented social agenda undermined by a war he supported but never understood, is the subject ...

The third time was the charm for Robert A. Caro, who finally won the nonfiction prize for the third volume of his majestic Lyndon B. Johnson biography, "The Master of the Senate" (Alfred A. Knopf).

LBJ’s first 4 1/2 years in office had been among the most eventful in White House history. He had pulled together a grieving nation and pressed his own party to enact the Civil Rights Act of 1964.