Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson , by Robert Caro. Alfred A. Knopf, 1,039 pages, $35.
O.K., it’s staggering, amazing, awesome, horrifying-but is it the book by Robert Caro, or is it Lyndon Baines Johnson himself? Maybe we don’t have to decide; maybe it’s both. As monumental as this biography (now Read More
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative , by David Brock. Crown, 336 pages, $25.95.
I’m afraid you really are going to have to read this book just to see what you think of it. “This is a terrible book,” David Brock begins. “It is about lies told and reputations ruined. It is Read More
Ambling
into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush , by Frank Bruni.
HarperCollins, 278 pages, $23.95.
This is a curious book, in
that it’s both quite a good personality study of George W. Bush and also a
prize example of what’s wrong with political journalism.
The genre is campaign memoir,
and Read More
