Caro is extremely comprehensive and will write small mini-books on the history of every significant institution or person LBJ ever touched. That means that The Master of the Senate begins in like 1810 and gives a complete history of the Senate up until LBJ is elected into the body.
The Master of the Senate covers the 50s and early 60s? I thought the seniority system in congress was younger than that.
Caro is extremely comprehensive and will write small mini-books on the history of every significant institution or person LBJ ever touched. That means that The Master of the Senate begins in like 1810 and gives a complete history of the Senate up until LBJ is elected into the body.
I’m reading Caro’s Path to Power now, and he says seniority system was well established in the house by Johnson’s arrival in the depression.