Robert Caro's _Years of Lyndon Johnson_ is the greatest work of literature that America has produced

One of the fun aspects of being fairly well-read is the (perhaps false) confidence to make very sweeping statements about literature. Well, here's one: I've just finished reading the fourth volume of Robert Caro's mammoth biography of Lyndon Johnson, and I am now more convinced than ever that it is the greatest work of American literature th…


