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Years of Lyndon Johnson volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Pulitizer Prize biographer Robert A. Caro follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career, describing Johnson's volatile relationship with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy during the fight they waged for the 1960 Democratic nomination for president, through Johnson's unhappy vice presidency, his assumption to the presidency after Kennedy's assassination, his victories over the budget and civil...
3) All the way
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"Chronicles the first 11 months of Lyndon Baines Johnson's presidency. The story tells how nation-shifting legislation was accomplished and how the presidency was won in 1964"--Director's note.
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Years of Lyndon Johnson volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
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Volume two is an examination of the life of American president Lyndon B. Johnson, focusing on the seven years between 1941 and 1948, a period in which his race for power was stalled; discussing his reported lack of interest in his work in the House of Representatives, the genesis of his fortune, his service in the U.S. Navy, and his controversial election to the Senate.
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English
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An engrossing biography of President Lyndon Johnson from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Team of Rivals. Doris Kearns Goodwin's extraordinary and insightful book draws from meticulous research in addition to the author's time spent working at the White House from 1967 to 1969. After Lyndon Johnson's term ended, Goodwin remained his confidante and assisted in the preparation of his memoir. In Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream she traces...
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Years of Lyndon Johnson volume 3
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English
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Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.
At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had...
At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had...
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Years of Lyndon Johnson volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990, c1982
Language
English
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Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson's political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas Hill coutry to his congressional debut.
16) Path to war
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HBO Video
Pub. Date
©2003
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English
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Retraces the events, including the Vietnam War, occurring between President Johnson's inaugural in 1965 and his decision not to seek another presidential term in 1968.
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A behind-the-scenes history of the most momentous decade in American politics, now with a new introduction by the author. Richard N. Goodwin entered public service in 1958 as a law clerk for Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter. He left politics ten years later in the aftermath of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Over the course of one extraordinary decade, Goodwin orchestrated some of the noblest achievements in the history...
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