We Have Good News, and…
By I was joking about how the next massive Caro LBJ book would focus on his vice presidential years. Apparently, I was prescient, although at least we will get 1964. And part 4 will now be due next May, so could be worse.
For those of you who haven’t read Caro but are interested, the brutal truth is that the two behemoths (The Power Broker and Master of the Senate) are by far the best. The second LBJ book — in which Caro seemed particularly committed to seeing LBJ as Moses when substantively they were near-opposites — is pretty bad, and the first is decent but inessential.
…co-bloggers and commenters are making the case that I’m badly underrating The Path to Power, which is absolutely possible; it’s been more than a decade. I definitely stand by my take on Means of Ascent, though.