2024-01-23
36 分钟Hey everybody, this is a narration of my blog post,
Lessons from the Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert Carrow.
This was written May 3rd, 2023.
Explore a single individual deeply enough, and truths about all individuals emerge.
Robert Carrow.
Robert Carrow's The Years of Lyndon Johnson are not only the best biographies I have ever read,
and not only the best histories I have ever read.
They're perhaps the best books I've ever read.
Below are the main lessons I've got from these four volumes about power and powerful personalities.
a race in which he drove himself so ruthlessly that a fellow politician,
a man who worked terribly hard himself, said, I never knew a man could work that hard.
At every stage in his adult life, as congressman secretary, congressman, senatorial candidate,
he had displayed a willingness to push to their very edge and beyond the edge,
the limits not only of politics, but of himself.
In every crisis in his life, He had worked until the weight dropped off his body,
and his eyes sunk into his head,
and his face grew gaunt and cavernous, and he trembled with fatigue,
and the rashes on his hands grew raw and angry.
And whenever, at the end of one more and a very long line of very long days,
he realized that there was still one more task that should be done,