A sample of nonfiction: Robert A. Caro's Means of Ascent
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on June 28 1941 Lyndon Johnson seemed tohave victory, yet another victory in his grasp. At the age of 32 he had already won so many victories and had won them so fast. A tall, lanky, big eared young man from one of the most remote and impoverished regions of the United States, that Texas Hill country. Ah, young man with no money and only 1/3 rate education by 21 he was already known as the Wonder Kit of Texas politics. At 23 a congressman's assistant in Washington, he was the boss of the Little Congress, the organization of Congressional assistance. At 26 he was the youngest of the 48 state directors of the National Youth Administration, perhaps the youngest person ever entrusted with statewide authority for any New Deal programs. At 28 plunging into a race no one believed he could win, he was elected to Congress. Now, at 32 he was not only a congressman but having restored centralized financing to his party's congressional campaign and revitalize the more abundant MCR Attic Congressional Campaign Committee with money from Texas oilman and contractors to which he alone in Washington had access. He was a congressman with power over other congressmen, national power and when, in April 1941 the sudden death of United States Senator Morris Sheppard opened a Senate seat, a paternal Lee beaming Franklin Roosevelt allowed him to announce his candidacy in the ensuing special election from the White House steps and Washington assumed Lyndon Johnson would be coming back. A senator, the youngest senator, a senator at 32 well on the way to that fast ambition beyond the Senate, of which he had spoken so frequently in his youth. And on not one recorded occasions since he had embarked on the road to it all. During the 1941 campaign, he assumed so himself. For the first time in his life. As week by week, every poll showed him gaining on his leading opponent, Governor W. Lee Pappy O Daniel, and then passing him and pulling further and further ahead. He was confident of success, euphoric, infect. As late as midnight on June 28 Election day, it appeared that the euphoria was justified. But on that day, Lyndon Johnson made a mistake