Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Lyndon Johnson and the American dream Doris Kearns Goodwin. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991. - xii, 432 p. ; 24 cm.

Main sequence of paging starts with p. 19.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Takes us through the vast landscape of Johnson's political and personal life: from his childhood, dominated by an indulgent mother and a hell-raising politico father, through his early political victories and the ideals that inspired them; from the Washington system that trained him, through his election as Vice President and the transitional year, 1964, when JFK's assassination brought him to the highest office in the land; from the remarkable talents that brought him triumph, to the inner demons that tormented him and the flaws that engendered his ultimate tragedy.

0312060270 :

9780312060275

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Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973


Presidents--United States--Biography


United States--Politics and government--1963-1969

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