Unger, Irwin, 1927–2021

LBJ : a life / Irwin Unger, Debi Unger. - New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c1999. - v, 586 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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.

0471176028 (alk. paper) 9780471176022 (alk. paper)

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Johnson, Lyndon B. 1908-1973.


Presidents--United States--Biography.
Presidentes--Estados Unidos--Biografías


United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.
Estados Unidos --Política y gobierno --1963-1969

002 E 847 / J67U 1999

973.923/092