Lyndon Johnson and the American dream
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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.
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Goodwin, Doris Kearns Author
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9780312060275
9781497683853
9781497683853
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Growing up
Education and the dream of success
The making of a politician
Rise to power in the senate
The senate leader
The vice-presidency
The transition year
The Great Society
Vietnam
Things go wrong
Under siege in the White House
The withdrawal
Epilogue.
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