Master of the Senate
«Dazzling ... awesome ... Rarely will you come across a more compelling account of the nature of great power and its entanglement with massive personality. Rarely will you find another biography which is such a fascinating study of how a bad man became a power for the good»
Observer
Reissued as a Bodley Head trade paperback, the third instalment of 'the greatest biography of our era' The Times Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- The Bodley Head Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 1200
- ISBN
- 9781847926135
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«Dazzling ... awesome ... Rarely will you come across a more compelling account of the nature of great power and its entanglement with massive personality. Rarely will you find another biography which is such a fascinating study of how a bad man became a power for the good»
Observer
«A wonderful, a glorious tale … It will be hard to equal this amazing book … Caro’s description of how [Johnson passed the civil rights legislation] is masterly; I was there and followed the course of the legislation closely, but I did not know the half of it»
New York Times Book Review
«Quite breathtaking ... one of the great political biographies»
Gordon Brown
«The greatest biography of our era … Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics»
The Times
«As if it were possible, Master of the Senate takes what was already an outstanding multi-volume series on to a still higher plane. It is, quite simply, the finest biography I have ever read, or ever could imagine reading. It is more than that: it is one of the finest works of literature I have ever encountered, or ever hope to»
New Statesman