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On political power - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland

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Reflections on Robert Caro’s LBJ biography

From Lessons in Darkness, Werner Herzog, 1992 I recently reread The Path to Power, the first part of the biography of President Lyndon Johnson, which Robert Caro has been working on since 1976. Before I first read Caro seven years ago, my understanding of how political power works was, as I recall it, very limited and flawed. I thought about power—to the extent I thought about it at all—in abstract and formal terms, along the lines of how it was explained in school. There were branches of government vested with different kinds of powers, and rules and laws governing how they can be used and…

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