Hendrik Strauss’s Reviews > The Path to Power > Status Update

'He was always running' reported his colleague secretary at his first job in Washington. Striving with every fibre of his body 'to be someone', haunted by the fear of it never coming to be. The inquiry for me is not just into what kind of figure Johnson was, and how he worked out power in his favour, but also asking myself what it is for me that makes a power hungry manipulator still an antihero of sorts