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 presentation Caro recently gave on “the ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The pivotal chapter on the 1960 Democratic Convention in The Passage of Power, the just-published and justly ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This work is a one volume abridgment of Dallek's 2-volume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson v. 1. Lone star rising (1991); v. 2, Flawed giant (1998). The making of a politician -- The Congressman -- The ...

Almost 40 years after he left the White House, public perceptions of Lyndon B. Johnson remain shrouded in myth and caricature. Several generations of spinmeisters have hammered in the idea that this ...

Scott Simon talks with Robert Caro, author of Master of the Senate, about Lyndon Johnson's years as Senate majority leader. Mr. Caro says Senator Johnson corralled support for issues on his agenda by ...

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