The Path to Power
by Robert A. Caro
Volume one of Caro's Lyndon Johnson: the Hill Country, the ambition, the first campaigns, how power is acquired from nothing. Masterful about hunger and method.
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you want to understand raw ambition and how power is built.
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Three things you will actually use
- Power reveals.
- Out-work everyone.
- Understand what people need.
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Read the chapters on the Hill Country and electrification.
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How power is acquired.
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