Lyndon Johnson
By Tess Mullen, Associate Consultant (MPA '13)
On Monday night, I had the pleasure of hearing famed biographer Robert Caro speak at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Caro’s biographies have been a hallmark and a highlight of my Fels education. My first assignment as a Fels student last summer was to read Caro’s 1000+ page biography of Robert Moses, an urban planner who literally shaped the...
Fels Research and Consulting, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro, Tess Mullen, Research and Consulting Blog
By Samuel Williford, Associate Consultant (MPA '13)
Robert Caro’s latest work, “The Passage of Power”, came out recently, and documents the period of Lyndon B. Johnson’s career from 1960 to 1965. Having a chance to reflect on that period in American history has helped
me to realize how influential it is today, and how many of the themes
and issues brought up by reviewers are still...
