![]() ![]() Johnson's love affair with Alice Glass, mistress of his patron, because it is based on only three sources. ![]() Phillip Scott in which the retired President himself described his campus politics as a ''pretty vicious operation.'' Caro cites as sources (in addition to five oral histories) six articles, five yearbooks, interviews with four deans and administrators, two faculty members, five members of the White Stars organization, five members of the Black Stars, 17 other students, three townspeople and four others, plus the tape recording of E. Caro ignores oral histories at the Johnson Library ''and relies mainly on the belated recollections of two disgruntled San Marcos graduates.'' On page 800, Mr. Donald complains that in his description of Mr. Caro's pursuit of accuracy can be found in the Notes bound into the book itself. These attacks appear to be based on a curious oversight inasmuch as evidence of Mr. Donald's attacks on two chapters in the book which would seem to be outstanding examples of thorough reporting rather than of the casual animus which the critic ascribes to the author. 21), as ''fascinating, immensely long and highly readable'' is impressive indeed.īut the basis of that praise is somehow diminished by Mr. ![]() Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson, ''The Path to Power'' (Nov. ![]() The praise lavished by David Herbert Donald upon Robert A. ![]()
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