Why political power? Because political power shapes all of our lives. It shapes your life in little ways that you might not even think about. - Robert A. Caro

Speaking out as he had never before done in Congress, Lyndon Johnson in 1947 opposed most of Truman’s “Fair Deal.

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

that quality in me. And I know it wasn’t only logic that made me think: I’m never going to write about a crucial election, a pivotal moment in my subject’s life, and say that no one’s ever going to know if it was really stolen or not until I’ve done everything I can think of to find out if it was stolen or not.