Read by Grover Gardner

"Thrilling. Caro burns into the reader's imagination the story of the 1948 Senate
election. Never has it been told so dramatically, with breathtaking detail piled
on incredible development ...In The Path to Power, Volume I of his monumental
biography, Robert A. Caro ignited a blowtorch whose bright flame illuminated
Johnson's early career. In Means of Ascent he intensifies the flame to a brilliant
blue point." --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times

"Brilliant. No brief review does justice to the drama of the story Caro is telling,
which is nothing less than how present-day politics was born." --Henry F. Graff,
Professor of History, Columbia University

"Riveting . . . Explosive . . . Readers are in for a white-knuckle, hair-raising
tale that could have ended in any of a dozen ways, with L.B.J. in the White House
the longest shot of all. This is good history. Caro's treatment achieves poetic
intensity." --Paul Gray, Time

"Caro has a unique place among American political biographers. He has become, in
many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured. Caro's diligence and
ambition are phenomenal . . . A remarkable story . . . Epic." --Mark Feeney,
Boston Sunday Globe

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