Lyndon B. Johnson : portrait of a president

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Lyndon B. Johnson : portrait of a president

Robert Dallek

(Penguin books, . Biography)

Penguin, 2005

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Originally published: Oxford University Press, 2004

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

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.

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  • NCID
    BA71280691
  • ISBN
    • 0141019654
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 396 p., [8] p. of plates
  • Size
    20 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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