The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson) info
The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career ― 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark. For the first time, we see the Kennedy assassination through Lyndon Johnson’s eyes. We watch Johnson step into the presidency, inheriting a staff fiercely loyal to his slain predecessor; a Congress determined to retain its power over the executive branch; and a nation in shock and mourning. We see how within weeks ― grasping the reins of the presidency with supreme mastery ― he propels through Congress essential legislation that at the t