Lyndon B. Johnson: The 36th President of the United States | Biography

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  • Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President

    • ASIN: 0195159217
    • ISBN: 0195159217
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael Beschloss, in The Los Angeles Times, said that it "succeeds brilliantly." The New York Times called it "rock solid" and The Washington Post hailed it as "invaluable." And Sidney Blumenthal in The Boston Globe wrote that it was "dense with a... [Read More]

  • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

    • ASIN: B002GKGB0U
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Flawed Giant: Lyndon B. Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973

    • ASIN: 0195054652
    • ISBN: 0195054652
    • Brand: Oxford University Press
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II

    • ASIN: B005LALFT4
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years

    • ASIN: 1476798796
    • ISBN: 1476798796
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    One of “Five Best Books about Wartime Presidents”—Michael Bechloss, The Wall Street Journal From Lyndon Johnson’s closest domestic adviser during the White House years comes a book in which “Johnson leaps out of the pages in all his raw and earthy glory” (The New York Times Book Review) that’s been called “a joy to read” (Stephen ... [Read More]

  • Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies

    • ASIN: B00F3QYL06
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

    In this New York Times bestseller, the White House chief usher for nearly three decades offers a behind-the-scenes look at America’s first families.  J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—and coordinated its daily life—at the request of the president and his family. He... [Read More]

  • LBJ: A Life

    • ASIN: 0471176028
    • ISBN: 0471176028
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

    From a Pulitzer prize-winning writer, the only single-volume biography of the towering yet enigmatic leader--from his humble origins to his rise to America's highest office. Flawed as a human being, Lyndon Johnson was a towering public figure of his era, a man whose social programs changed America in profound ways. In this compelling new biography,... [Read More]

  • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III

    • ASIN: B002IPZBPO
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

    • ASIN: B010P21I1W
    • Brand: Open Road Media
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

    With a new foreword: The New York Times–bestselling biography of President Lyndon Johnson from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Team of Rivals.   Featuring a 2018 foreword by the Pulitzer Prize–winning political historian that celebrates a reappraisal of Lyndon Johnson’s legacy five decades after his presidency, from the vantage point ... [Read More]

  • Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President

    • ASIN: B00UDCNMXW
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    This “smartly written…stunning” (The Boston Globe) portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, and ballast for her husband Lyndon offers “a penetrating analysis…of a marriage that paired two complicated but devoted figures, a coupling that changed the face of America” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).Marriage is... [Read More]

  • Lyndon B. Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 36th President, 1963-1969

    • ASIN: 0805082395
    • ISBN: 0805082395
    • Manufacturer: Times Books

    The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and presidency collapsed in the tragedy of the Vietnam WarFew 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 Wh... [Read More]

  • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV

    • ASIN: 0375713255
    • ISBN: 9780375713255
    • Brand: Vintage Books
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEBook 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 grea... [Read More]

  • The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

    • ASIN: 0394720245
    • ISBN: 0394720245
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, The Power Broker is a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping (and mis-sha... [Read More]

  • The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

    • ASIN: B079KV32KF
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Science Monitor • Southern Living Our current clima... [Read More]

  • Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    • ASIN: 1476795924
    • ISBN: 1476795924
    • Brand: SIMON AND SCHUSTER
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Lyndon: An Oral Autobiography

    • ASIN: 0399123571
    • ISBN: 0399123571
    • Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons

    Interviews with Lyndon Johnson's family, friends, and enemies provide an objective, candid portrait of one of America's most complex and controversial presidents

  • Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

    • ASIN: 1476794138
    • ISBN: 1476794138
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Gallery Books

    A rare and fascinating portrait of the American presidency from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November.Secret Service agent Clint Hill brings history intimately and vividly to life as he reflects on his seventeen years protecting the most powerful office in the nation. Hill walked alongside Preside... [Read More]

  • The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

    • ASIN: B00BAWHPX2
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin: The Presidential Biographies: No Ordinary Time, Team of Rivals, The Bully Pulpit

    • ASIN: 1982103221
    • ISBN: 1982103221
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    From America’s “Historian-in-Chief” (New York magazine), The Presidential Biographies boxed set—featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s beloved and bestselling biographies No Ordinary Time, Team of Rivals, and The Bully Pulpit.After five decades of acclaimed studies of the presidency, Doris Kearns Goodwin stands as America’s premi... [Read More]

  • Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents (The Bedford Series in History And Culture)

    • ASIN: 0312416334
    • ISBN: 0312416334
    • Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's

    Whether admired or reviled, Lyndon B. Johnson and his tumultuous administration embodied the principles and contradictions of his era. Taking advantage of newly released evidence, this second edition incorporates a selection of fresh documents, including transcripts of Johnson's phone conversations and conservative reactions to his leadership, to e... [Read More]

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