Non-Fiction

I started with Master of the Senate. Simply awesome. I did not think I would be interested in the earlier books so I started Passage of Power. But then a friend started out with the first book so that plus dixiegrrrrl's recommendation got me to try Volume 1 and there is something to be said for starting in the beginning.

I am now about two-thirds through it and it too is awesome. It is a true history lesson encompassing the years proceeding Roosevelt's election, the New Deal, the settling of West Texas. Caro lays out the economic and environmental challenges of life in Texas. He provides a lot of insight into the Republican and Democratic party philosophies. Of course, all this information is woven around the life of LBJ but the series is so much more than about just one man. But what an amazing individual he was. I only remember LBJ as president and those are mostly not so good memories. In many ways he was an awful person, but he managed to do a lot of good too.