Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IIIn Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. Here, Johnsons almost mythic personalitypart genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculatingis seen at its most nakedly ambitious. This multifaceted book carries the President to be from the aftermath of his devastating defeat in his 1941 campaign for the Senate the despair it engendered in him, and the