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Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. 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. In these pages, Johson 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. Gracefully written and delicately balanced, this singular biography reveals both the greatness and the tangled complexities of one of the most extravagant characters ever to step onto the presidential stage.
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Robert Dallek has taught at Columbia, UCLA, and Oxford. He is currently a professor of history at Boston University. He is the author of several books, including his classic two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, Lone Star Rising and Flawed Giant and the international bestseller John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, 1917-1963.
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From Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan, the image of the self-made man has effectively served occupants of the White House. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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LBJ's presidency should be remembered for the Civil Rights act and various other reforming pieces of legislation - sadly, its mostly remembered for "Hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today" due to the Vietnam War. Dallek presents the man as he was, of great aspirational attributes and terrible character flaws. Excellent.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This fine book by Dallek is a 'distillation' of his earlier two books, 'Lone Star Rising' and 'Flawed Giant'.
This volume offers the reader a more 'stream-lined' biography of the incredible LBJ and yet still provides a remarkably good over-view of one of America's most dynamic and complex politicians.
The chapters are presented chronologically and are subdivided into some of the more important phases of Johnson's political life.
Dallek covers it all; from LBJ's early years, his mentors and inspirations, all the way up to the events in Dallas.
From there, the author chronicles his subject as he uses his skill to enact so much of the Kennedy legislation that hadn't yet passed into law.
Dallek follows LBJ into '64 and shows that the Texan had moved out from beneath JFK's shadow and was seen and accepted by the electorate as 'his own man'.
The tragedy of Vietnam looms ever larger as the sixties become the seventies and Johnson's goal of the 'Great Society' had been lost in the jungles of South-East Asia.
This is an excellent book about an amazing man.
Barry
This volume offers the reader a more 'stream-lined' biography of the incredible LBJ and yet still provides a remarkably good over-view of one of America's most dynamic and complex politicians.
The chapters are presented chronologically and are subdivided into some of the more important phases of Johnson's political life.
Dallek covers it all; from LBJ's early years, his mentors and inspirations, all the way up to the events in Dallas.
From there, the author chronicles his subject as he uses his skill to enact so much of the Kennedy legislation that hadn't yet passed into law.
Dallek follows LBJ into '64 and shows that the Texan had moved out from beneath JFK's shadow and was seen and accepted by the electorate as 'his own man'.
The tragedy of Vietnam looms ever larger as the sixties become the seventies and Johnson's goal of the 'Great Society' had been lost in the jungles of South-East Asia.
This is an excellent book about an amazing man.
Barry
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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It's easy to relate LBJ with the Vietnam war and his succession to power after
Kennedy's assasination. What about "The Great Society", "Civil Rights" and
"Welfare Reforms", that make USA today, not perfect, but still driven by the
"Dynamo" that was Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Robert Dallak tells it as it was, warts and all, in his usual addictive style.
Kennedy's assasination. What about "The Great Society", "Civil Rights" and
"Welfare Reforms", that make USA today, not perfect, but still driven by the
"Dynamo" that was Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Robert Dallak tells it as it was, warts and all, in his usual addictive style.
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