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Airs Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

For the past 37 years, Robert Caro has devoted his life to writing the definitive biography of Lyndon Johnson. So far, The Years of Lyndon Johnson has four acclaimed volumes and has shown readers just how complex the 36th president was, as both a politician and a man.

Unlike its Central American neighbors, Nicaragua hasn't waged a head-on military battle with the cartels. The country suffers less violence, but critics says it effectively tolerates trafficking.

Unlike its Central American neighbors, Nicaragua hasn't waged a head-on military battle with the cartels. The country suffers less violence, but critics says it effectively tolerates trafficking.

Donna Tartt's new novel The Goldfinch follows a motherless boy and a priceless painting in the aftermath of a terror attack. It's only her third novel in 21 years. Tartt tells NPR's Scott Simon that she started thinking about art, money and fate after stumbling across an art exhibition in a Las Vegas casino.

The Classic Story Re-Revisited

The official clock ran out on Texas lawmakers overnight, which effectively killed a bill that would have dramatically restricted abortion in the nation's second most populous state. Hours of chaos and confusion in Austin finally lifted as Texas Senate leaders decided that the vote on Senate Bill 5 did not clear a constitutionally-mandated hurdle that it pass before midnight.

People in the Bay Area community of San Bruno are trying to pick up the pieces after last night's gas line explosion and fire roared through the community. Four people were killed and 38 homes were destroyed. Survivors of San Diego County fires say they have some advice for people in San Bruno.

Endeavour, the baby of NASA's fleet, roared off the launchpad at Florida's Kennedy Space Center for its final mission in 19 years of service. Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the wife of mission commander Mark Kelly, was among the tens of thousands who gathered to watch.

The fourth volume in Robert Caro's monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson is The Passage of Power; it explores the period between 1958 and 1964 during which Johnson went from powerful Senate majority leader to powerless vice president to — suddenly — president of the United States.