Lyndon Johnson And The American Dream

The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written

St. Martin's Griffin (Jun 15, 1991)

9780312060275

| Paperback

432 pages | 6.1 x 8.9 inch | English

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Dewey 973.923092

LC Classification E847 .G64 1991

LC Control No. 90028429

Subject

Presidents - Biography. - United States
United States - Politics And Government

Plot

Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she became fascinated by the man--his character, his enormous energy and drive, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power. As a member of his White House staff, she soon became his personal confidante, and in the years before his death he revealed himself to her as he did to no other.Widely praised and enormously popular, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant, conflicted humanity.