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From riveting biographies to texts covering his presidency, we bring you a definitive guide to the best books on Lyndon Johnson.
Jan 5, 2018 · Best Biography of Lyndon Johnson: Robert Caro’s multi-volume series on LBJ. Best Single-Volume Biography of LBJ: Robert Dallek’s “Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President” –
Apr 9, 2013 · The political biography of our time, now available in a four-volume hardcover set. Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson is one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American president.
- Robert A. Caro
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Four volumes have been published, running to more than 3,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career.
Feb 17, 1990 · Here is Lyndon Johnson—his Texas, his Washington, his America—in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.
Mar 3, 2005 · The book is a well-written middle ground between Dallek’s two volume biography (and Robert Caro’s award-winning multi-volume work) and Charles Peters' short biography of Johnson in the American Presidents Series.
- Robert Dallek
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.
Book Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as “one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece.”
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...
Jan 8, 2004 · Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President. Robert Dallek. Oxford University Press, USA, Jan 8, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 396 pages. Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of...
