Shawn’s Reviews > The Path to Power > Status Update

what do you think so far?

I love it - the first 30 pages or so were tough (he covers the landscape of the area LBJ grew up in, lots of talk about dry soil) but I'm now flying through it.

I even think I'll go back and re-read those first 30 pages after I finish the book to give it a second chance.

I picked it up because Robert Caro was a guest on a podcast and said he felt he had to move to the Texas Hill Country (where LBJ grew up) to truly understand it. He decided to move there after hearing about a man in the town who "once rode a horse twenty miles across the hills at a slow walk gingerly holding several dozen eggs, in order to sell them—for a nickel a dozen—in Marble Falls." That line struck me enough to start reading it.