I’d of course heard about Caro’s opus for years and years and always figured it would be too boring to read that much about LBJ. I was so wrong!
I was finally moved to pick up the first book in his series after seeing Turn Every Page, the wonderful documentary about Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb. As a journalist myself I was astounded by the depth and detail of Caro’s reporting – and all that he uncovered about LBJ. What a psychopath who also made positive history – it’s easy to understand why Caro got so obsessed.
This is the kind of book that makes you make lots of exclamatory noises when you’re reading, even all by yourself. I was saying “wow!” so often that I finally inspired my husband to read it and he loved it too.
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE
Book Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as “one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece.”
The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power…
Molly Giles has a distinctly hilarious, cutting (especially in the title story) voice as in this brilliant collection she dices into failed love affairs, adulterous catastrophes, and annoying canines.
I keep this particular book on my bedstand and refer to it repeatedly when I want to imbibe inspired cattiness. She has won lots of prizes and I can’t believe she isn’t a household name.
"This collection is her best ever." AMY TAN Wife with Knife is a collection of quick and quirky short stories, that are an utter delight and winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize 2020
"Molly Giles’ stories have always been among my favorites since I first read her work thirty-seven years ago. This collection is her best ever. What an irreverent, original voice! I found myself gasping in shock and laughter, feeling at the end of each tale that I had garnered strange wisdom on the human heart and…
I’m obsessed with the Gilded Age, and Howells’ book drops you right in the middle of it, making NYC come alive with all its violence and divisions and beauty.
I owe this recommendation to the NY Times columnist Pamela Paul, and am so grateful for it because it was the ideal companion for a two-day trip up the northern California coast. You need a certain amount of solitude and quiet to let the story absorb you, and it’s so worth it.
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"Buzz" -- the memoir of a mother and son who were both diagnosed with ADHD and were making home a battleground until they figured it out -- is my favorite of the 12 non-fiction books I've authored and co-authored. So much so that I updated and republished it last year. I treasure the letters and emails I get from parents who have felt accompanied on this crazy journey by the book.
