Lyndon B. Johnson : portrait of a president
Dallek, Robert2005
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Based on years of research in over 450 manuscript collections, oral histories and numerous personal interviews, this biography follows Johnson from the Texas hill country to the White House. Johnson emerges as a man of towering intensity and anguished insecurity, brilliant, crude, intimidating, compassionate and driven.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.
Main title:
Lyndon B. Johnson : portrait of a president / Robert Dallek.
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Edition:
[Abridged ed.].
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2005.
Collation:
x, 396 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This work is a one volume abridgement of Lone star rising (1991) and Flawed giant (1998)This ed. originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141019659 (pbk)
Dewey class:
973.923092
Local class:
B.JOH
Language:
English
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BRN:
2068435