PositiveWashington Independent Review of BooksThis fourth volume of Robert Caro’s biography of Lyndon Johnson is much like its three prize-winning predecessors, detailed and riveting ... When it works, Caro’s prose style is wonderful; his alternating long and short sentences, his repeated phrases and quotations, make the book immediate and powerful. But when it does not work, Caro’s prose style is annoying, forcing the reader to go back, at the end of a hundred-word sentence, to remind himself of the subject ... There are passages in this book that, once read, will never leave the reader
