About this title: Tall and powerfully built, Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of conflicting insecurities and ambitions - a white Southerner who championed civil rights and a self-made rich man who declared 'unconditional war on poverty'. In this epic biography, historian Randall Woods draws on exclusive interviews and a treasure trove of White House tapes and declassified documents to fully explore, for the first time, Johnson's key influences, personal and political battles, and his extraordinary legacy. Woods depicts Johnson in all his complexity - at once cunning and naive, compassionate and cruel. Despite ...
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2007
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2007-11-30
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2007
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Publisher: Free Press, New York
Date Published: 2006
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Date Published: 2006
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Date Published: 2006-08-01
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Date Published: 2006
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Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2006
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"An interesting analysis, though it does not have the sheer amount of detail that Robert Caro's LBJ volumes do. the description of the presidency will have to tide us over until Caro finishes volume IV of his exhaustive LBJ series.
One major quibble--Woods gets a lot of facts wrong, for example, the sequence of gunshots when Kennedy is assasinated, the color of his wife's bloodstained dress and the home states of some very important senators. For that reason, I had to dock this book one star."
"The most balanced biography I've read on Johnson. Acknowledged his shortcomings but gave due credit to progressive things he accomplished. Interesting contrast to Caro's series especially the 1948 senate election where Caro painted LBJ to be villian and Coke Stevenson to be hero. While Caro mentioned/glossed over some of Stevenson's background, Woods made it clear how Stevenson fired some university officials for being "too liberal" Stevenson's attitudes towards unions and his record on race and his close ties with very conservative backers---Caro made it almost sound like all moneyed people supported LBJ. Anyway, great read about a complex man in a complex time"
"This is a great biography of Lyndon Johnson. I'd say LBJ is both one of our best presidents and one of our worst. His record of passing legislation is second only perhaps to his hero FDR and I especially admire his ramming the Civil Rights and Voting Rights bills through congress in '64 and '65 which he could have opted to water down. He took the risk of losing the entire Democratic South in the election of 1964 for this stand.
On the other hand, LBJ is more responsible than JFK or Nixon for the travesty in Viet Nam. Like Nixon, LBJ seemed to be haunted by mental demons, extremely conflicted, preventing him from doing the right thing in Viet Nam war, escalating the war instead of ending it.
I give 5 stars to the book, 5 stars to LBJ as president on the domestic side and 1 star on the foreign policy side."
"Almost no President has a legacy harder to encapsulate then Lyndon Johnson, and as long as baby boomers dominate political culture, fights over his legacy will remain central to our electoral discourse. As a political history nerd, I have read far more about his Presidency than is prudent or wise. Yet, even I have to wonder why this book was written. After Dallek and Caro (let alone Perlstien and the rest), it's not really clear why this generation needs another standard popular biography of LBJ. To a large extent, this book presupposes a fairly large among of knowledge about Johnson. Its almost a shadow biography, content to follow and amend the popular volumes on Johnson; entertaining in its way, but oddly insubstantial for something the size of a small phonebook."
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