Lyndon Johnson and the American dream, Doris Kearns
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Lyndon Johnson and the American dream, Doris Kearns
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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individual biography
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index present
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non fiction
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Lyndon Johnson and the American dream
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Doris Kearns
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Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she became fascinated by the man--his character, his enormous energy and drive, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power. As a member of his White House staff, she soon became his personal confidante, and in the years before his death he revealed himself to her as he did to no other
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