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Master of the Senate
by Robert A. Caro
Robert Caro's Master of the Senate examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnson's career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his election as JFK's vice president in 1960. This, the third of a projected four-volume series, studies not only the pragmatic, ruthless, ambitious Johnson, who wielded influence with both consummate skill and "raw, elemental brutality," but also the Senate itself, which Caro describes (pre-1957) as a "cruel joke" and an "impregnable stronghold" against social change. The milestone of Johnson's Senate years was the 1957 Civil Rights Act, whose passage he single-handedly engineered. As important as the bill was--both in and of itself and as a precursor to wider-reaching civil rights legislation--it was only close to Johnson's Southern "anti-civil rights" heart as a means to his dream: the presidency. Caro writes that not only does power corrupt, it "reveals," and that's exactly what this massive, scrupulously researched book does. A model of social, psychological, and political insight, it is not just masterful; it is a masterpiece. --H. O'Billovich, Amazon.com
Hardcover - 1152 pages Vol 3 (April 23, )
Knopf; ISBN: 0394528360Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 2)
by Robert A. Caro
The second installment in a projected four-volume biography of LBJ that opened with The Path to Power, Means of Ascent shines a harsh light on the early political years of one of America's most paradoxical presidents. The man who would later ram civil rights legislation through a reluctant Congress, and then be brought down by Vietnam, came out of a political swamp--Caro gives a graphic picture of the Texas democratic political machine at its most corrupt. The climax of the book is LBJ's election to the Senate in 1948, an election he won by 87 dubious votes out of almost a million. That vote arguably changed history. This book won the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Amazon.com
Paperback - 522 pages Reprint edition Vol 2 (March 1991
Vintage Books; ISBN: 067973371X)The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1)
by Robert A. Caro
Paperback Reissue edition Vol 1 (March 1990)
Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679729453LBJ : A Life
by Irwin Unger, Debi Unger
Hardcover - 592 pages
John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471176028Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Paperback / Published 1991Years of Lyndon Johnson : The Path to Power
by Robert A. Caro
Paperback Reissue edition Vol 001 (March 1990)
Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679729453Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1908-1960
by Robert Dallek
Book Description: Like other great figures of 20th-century American politics, Lyndon Johnson defies easy understanding. An unrivaled master of vote swapping, back room deals, and election-day skulduggery, he was nevertheless an outspoken New Dealer with a genuine commitment to the poor and the underprivileged. And he was also a representative figure. Johnson's career speaks volumes about American politics, foreign policy, and business in the forty years after 1930. As Charles de Gaulle said when he came to JFK's funeral: Kennedy was America's mask, but this man Johnson is the country's real face.In Lone Star Rising, Robert Dallek, winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his study of Franklin D. Roosevelt, turns to this fascinating "sinner and saint" to offer a brilliant, definitive portrait of a great American politician. Based on seven years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this first book in a two-volume biography follows Johnson's life from his childhood to his election as vice-president under Kennedy. We see Johnson, the twenty-three-year-old aide to a pampered millionaire Representative, become a de facto Congressman, and at age twenty-eight the country's best state director of the National Youth Administration. We see Johnson, the "human dynamo," first in the House and then in the Senate, whirl his way through sixteen- and eighteen-hour days, talking, urging, demanding, reaching for influence and power, in an uncommonly successful congressional career.
Dallek pays full due to Johnson's failings--his obsession with being top dog, his willingness to cut corners, and worse, to get there--but he also illuminates Johnson's sheer brilliance as a politician, the high regard in which key members of the New Deal, including FDR, held him, and his genuine concern for minorities and the downtrodden.
No president in American history is currently less admired than Lyndon Johnson. Bitter memories of Vietnam have sent Johnson's reputation into free fall, and recent biographies have painted him as a scoundrel who did more harm than good. Lone Star Rising attempts to strike a balance. It does not neglect the tawdry side of Johnson's political career, including much that is revealed for the first time. But it also reminds us that Lyndon Johnson was a man of exceptional vision, who from early in his career worked to bring the South into the mainstream of American economic and political life, to give the disadvantaged a decent chance, and to end racial segregation for the well-being of the nation.
Hardcover from Oxford Press
1991Reaching for Glory : The Johnson White House Tapes, 1964-1965
by Michael R. Beschloss (Editor)
(Hardcover)Dereliction of Duty : Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
by H. R. McMaster
Paperback: 464 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.25 x 9.23 x 6.25
Publisher: Perennial; ; Reprint edition
ISBN: 0060929081In the Boat With LBJ
by John L. Bullion
(Paperback)Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography With Documents (A Bedford Series in History and Culture)
by Bruce J. Schulman
Paperback from Bedford/St. Martin's
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society (American Ways Series)
by John A. Andrew
Hardcover from Ivan R Dee, Inc.
In His Steps: Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Mystique
by Paul R. Henggeler
Hardcover from Ivan R Dee, Inc.
1991Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World : American Foreign Policy 1963-1968
by Warren I. Cohen, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Paperback from Cambridge University Press
Lyndon Johnson Remembered: An Intimate Portrait of a Presidency
by Thomas W. Cowger, Sherwin J. Markman
Hardcover from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam
by Lloyd C. Gardner
Paperback from Ivan R Dee, Inc.
Flawed Giant: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1960-1973
by Robert Dallek
In the opening pages of Flawed Giant, readers meet a downtrodden politician whose greatest ambition--the presidency--is tantalizingly close but seemingly out of reach. JFK's elder by almost 20 years, Johnson was a reluctant and unenthusiastic vice president. When he finally realized the office, his satisfaction there was marred by his difficulty in reconciling his deeply held beliefs and political expediency. In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Lone Star Rising, biographer Robert Dallek concentrates on Johnson's White House years. In addition to expertly covering the major events of Johnson's presidency, Dallek probes lower-profile episodes that help expose Johnson's character. His agonizing search for a vice president in 1964 is one such example--in order to salve his ego, Johnson was adamant that he should win reelection without a Kennedy on the ticket and resisted both the Democratic party and Robert Kennedy right up until the convention. Amazon.com
Hardcover - 754 pages (April 1, )
Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0195054652
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