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...dulls enough fellow, in this company "dull" is appealing. Lendl is a chilly, self centered, condescending, meanspirited, arrogant man with a nice forehand. McEnroe is tennis' current, and quintessential, spoiled brat. Connors is a time-honored boor. With Borg now gone, there may be no one left to root for but the umpires...
Caro returns to surer ground, though, in the scholarly detective work that uncovered the relationship between Johnson and his main political bankroller, the Texas construction company Brown & Root, Inc. Through obscure, recently released Federal documents, correspondence among Federal officials and Brown & Root representatives, and extensive conversations with company founding partner George Brown. Caro details for the first time the way Johnson's first Congressional campaign, in a 1937 special election, benefitted from the company's desire to receive a $10-million Federal contract to build a dam in the district the future President sought to represent. The author traces painstakingly...
...point of tedium, seemingly overwhelmed by the rush of information from newly interviewed Johnson friends and classmates. Similarly, he loses a sense of proportion when he uses the same dramatic, overheated the tone to reveal both Johnson's finagling of a college election and multi-million-dollar Brown & Root schemes...
...government action until their proponents adopt the methods of compromise and mutual advantage that their opponents have used all along. Lyndon Johnson may have connived with George and Herman Brown to win Federal contracts and finance political campaigns, but the result of the half-legal dams built by Brown & Root was electric power and flood control for the beleaguered farmers of the Hill Country--people long forgotten by the powerful Texas utility interests. When Johnson ingratiated himself with construction company executives and "wildcatter" oil millionaires in order to finance Democratic efforts in Congressional elections, he was merely helping the Democrats...
...killed in World War I, and MacLeish lost two sons, one as an infant and the other as a young man to cancer. But everything in these letters bears witness that he was nevertheless a great knower and lover of life, and that he believed this to be the root of his art. He writes his student Ilona Karmel that "heart alone has never made an artist as the sugary wrecks of millions upon millions of poems and paintings and works of music testify. But without heart, without the love of life, the hunger for life, was never anything that...