Hailed as 'the greatest biography of our era' (The Times) Robert Caro's monumental work on American President Lyndon Johnson is 'a breathtakingly dramatic story [told] with consummate artistry and ardor' (The New York Times) and 'a work of greatness, of such acute observation of politics that its insights are applicable far beyond [its] time and place' (Independent). This, 'the series' crowning volume' (Economist), spans the years 1958 to 1964, arguably the most crucial years in the life of Johnson and pivotal years for American history. This era saw some of the most frustrating moments of...

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro is simply one of the best non-fiction books in English of the last forty years (Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times): a riveting and timeless account of power, politics and the city of New York by ‘the greatest political biographer of our times’ (Sunday Times); chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time and by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a Sunday Times Bestseller; An outright masterpiece (Evening Standard)

The Power Broker tells the story of...

Caro shows how Johnson's brilliance, charm and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and most powerful Majority Leader in history and how he used his incomparable legislative genius - seducing both Northern liberals and Southern conservatives - to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction.

Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of twentieth-century America. In this second instalment we witness a momentous turning point in American politics: the tragic last stand of the old politics versus the new.