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Dec 3, 2019 · Lyndon Johnson on a tour of Appalachia, May, 1964. ... In her latest book, “Great Society: A New History,” Shlaes shifts her focus forward by about a quarter-century, offering an account of ...
Jun 8, 2010 · Few figures in American history are as compelling and complex as Lyndon Baines Johnson, who established himself as the master of the U.S. Senate in the 1950s and succeeded John F. Kennedy in the White House after Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963. Charles Peters, a keen observer of Washington politics for more than five decades ...
Feb 23, 2023 · With his laser-like intensity in looking at Lyndon Johnson, as he had looked, laser-like, at Robert Moses. In Means of Ascent, Caro was using Stevenson as the good-government, good-character contrast to Johnson’s corrupt, vote-stealing persona. He believed — and shows in his writing — that the former governor was a decent, principled ...
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues -- one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President.
Lyndon B. Johnson will be remembered as President for his passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and also for his unwillingness to become the first president to lose a war. A career in politics will invariably lead one to people you dislike and Lyndon had his share of those, notably Bobby Kennedy.
May 1, 1996 · Johnson was enraged, and dropped Humphrey as a policy adviser. One year later the Vice-President went to Vietnam and endorsed American efforts to prop up South Vietnam. The result was that he couldn't escape Johnson's shadow during the 1968 campaign. Best line in the book: Humphrey, admitting how hard he took the defeat.
Oct 1, 1997 · A good analogy was drawn in the book. It relayed a political cartoon involving a representation of a LBJ as a stout book propped up between two bookends one labeled JFK, the other RFK. Lyndon B Johnson accomplished an awful lot in his presidency but will probably always be overshadowed by the Kennedy myth and legend.
