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 ...

As you say, the first thing any reader has to reckon with in reading Master of the Senate is its size. It's not just the sheer length of 1,167 pages, nor simply that those 1,167 pages cover only ...