Tuesday, May 06, 2003

BOOKS- Master of the Senate by Robert Caro. Book 3 in the Lydon Johnson biography delivers just like the first 2 did. This is biography as literature folks. What makes it intense is that we are caught in the drama when we already know how events will turn out. How does he do this? Let's just say that Caro is at least as good a storyteller as his subject. We also get treated to a rip-roaring history of the senate. If history were always taught this way , people would actually vote. The wait will probably be far too long for volume 4 , but it will be incredibly worth it when it arrives.