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Lyndon B. Johnson - Portrait of a President (Paperback)
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Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson
has received an avalanche of praise. Michael Beschloss, in The Los
Angeles Times, said that it "succeeds brilliantly." The New York
Times called it "rock solid" and The Washington Post hailed it as
"invaluable." And Sidney Blumenthal in The Boston Globe wrote that
it was "dense with astonishing incidents."
Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is
surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available. Based
on years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral
histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this biography
follows Johnson, the "human dynamo," from the Texas hill country to
the White House. We see LBJ, in the House and the Senate, whirl his
way through sixteen- and eighteen-hour days, talking, urging,
demanding, reaching for influence and power, in an uncommonly
successful congressional career. Then, in the White House, we see
Johnson as the visionary leader who worked his will on Congress
like no president before or since, enacting a range of crucial
legislation, from Medicare and environmental protection to the most
significant advances in civil rights for black Americans ever
achieved. And we see the depth of Johnson's private anguish as he
became increasingly ensnared in Vietnam.
In these pages Johnson emerges as a man of towering intensity and
anguished insecurity, of grandiose ambition and grave self-doubt, a
man who was brilliant, crude, intimidating, compassionate,
overbearing, driven: "A tornado in pants." Gracefully written and
delicately balanced, this
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