For supposedly being a leftist, he sure cut LBJ down to size. In the first volume he shows the poor beginnings but by the second volume he shows LBJ for the cheating pol he was and what a crappy human being he was to his wife and everyone around him.
Perhaps I overreached a bit branding him a “leftist”. I have not researched Caro enough for that. Just wanted to get that rant off my chest.....I personally won’t read any more Caro works, not after seeing him (a “biographer”) insert that opinionated garbage, which tends to make me question every subsequent assertion in the book.
Didn’t know anything about Robert A. Caro being a leftist.
He has destroyed Lyndon Johnson’s reputation worse than Joan Crawford’s stepchildren did with “Mommie Dearest”.
Four books on LBJ and Caro is only now working on the fifth which actually covers Johnson in the White House & his running of the Vietnam War. He’s 77 now; hope he lives to complete the final chapter on “Landslide Lyndon”.