The eagerly anticipated fourth volume in Robert A. Caro’s award-winning and best-selling “The Years of Lyndon Johnson” biography will be published next May, it was announced today by Sonny Mehta, Chairman and Editor in Chief of Knopf.

“This is the work of a great biographer writing at the very height of his powers,” Mehta said. “When I read the manuscript, I knew we had to publish this new book as quickly as possible. It is a riveting look at a pivotal period in our nation’s history – told for the first time as only Caro is capable of doing. His research is peerless; his knowledge of history exceptional; and his gifts for telling a story unrivaled. This book will be hailed as one of his finest works.”

The Passage of Power continues the story told in Master of the Senate (2002), Means of Ascent (1990), and The Path to Power (1982) – books that have been honored with a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle. Collectively, they have sold one and a half million copies, and the last two were #1 New York Times best sellers.