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LBJ : a life / Irwin Unger, Debi Unger.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c1999.Description: v, 586 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0471176028 (alk. paper)
  • 9780471176022 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.923/092
LOC classification:
  • 002 E 847 J67U 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Beginnings College Congressional Secretary Young Bureaucrat New Deal Congressman Rehearsal for the Senate Time Out for War "Landslide Lyndon" Freshman Senator Minority Leader Majority Leader The Civil Rights Act of 1957 To Run or Not to Run Campaign Year 1960 Vice President "Let Us Continue" High Water Guns vs. Butter Retreat Renunciation Winding Down Last Days.
Summary: The life story of the Great Society president. "Tormented by doubts and depression throughout his life, Lyndon Johnson could be a tornado of activity and ideas one day and deeply angry and insecure the next." He had always wanted to be president; "then his dream was fulfilled--in the most shocking and tragic way imaginable, when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 002 E 847 J67U 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000027946

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beginnings
College
Congressional Secretary
Young Bureaucrat
New Deal Congressman
Rehearsal for the Senate
Time Out for War
"Landslide Lyndon"
Freshman Senator
Minority Leader
Majority Leader
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
To Run or Not to Run
Campaign Year 1960
Vice President
"Let Us Continue"
High Water
Guns vs. Butter
Retreat
Renunciation
Winding Down
Last Days.

The life story of the Great Society president. "Tormented by doubts and depression throughout his life, Lyndon Johnson could be a tornado of activity and ideas one day and deeply angry and insecure the next." He had always wanted to be president; "then his dream was fulfilled--in the most shocking and tragic way imaginable, when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

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