LEADER 04176nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910811704603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-50296-7 010 $a0-19-518410-6 010 $a0-19-972859-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000001204511 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000194957 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11166578 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194957 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10241787 035 $a(PQKB)10823000 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC316372 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL316372 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10103572 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL50296 035 $a(OCoLC)925414812 035 $a(OCoLC) 52377425 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB167101 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001204511 100 $a20030515d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLyndon B. Johnson $eportrait of a president /$fRobert Dallek 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford, England ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2004 215 $ax, 396 p 300 $aThis work is a one volume abridgment of Dallek's 2-volume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson v. 1. Lone star rising (1991); v. 2, Flawed giant (1998). 311 $a0-19-515920-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [379]-381) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Making of a Politician -- 2 The Congressman -- 3 The Senator -- 4 The Vice President -- 5 From JFK to LBJ -- 6 "Landslide Lyndon -- 7 King of the Hill -- 8 Foreign Policy Dilemmas -- 9 Retreat from the Great Society -- 10 "Lyndon Johnson's War" -- 11 A Sea of Troubles -- 12 Stalemate -- 13 Last Hurrahs -- 14 Unfinished Business -- 15 After the Fall -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y. 330 $aRobert 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 astonishing incidents.". Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available. Based on years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this biography follows Johnson, the "human dynamo," from the Texas hill country to the White House. We see LBJ, in the House and the Senate, whirl his way through sixteen- and eighteen-hour days, talking, urging, demanding, reaching for influence and power, in an uncommonly successful congressional career. Then, in the White House, we see Johnson as the visionary leader who worked his will on Congress like no president before or since, enacting a range of crucial legislation, from Medicare and environmental protection to the most significant advances in civil rights for black Americans ever achieved. And we see the depth of Johnson's private anguish as he became increasingly ensnared in Vietnam. In these pages Johnson emerges as a man of towering intensity and anguished insecurity, of grandiose ambition and grave self-doubt, a man who was brilliant, crude, intimidating, compassionate, overbearing, driven: "A tornado in pants." Gracefully written and delicately balanced, this singular biography reveals both the greatness and the tangled complexities of one of the most extravagant characters ever to step onto the presidential stage. 606 $aPresidents$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1963-1969 615 0$aPresidents 676 $a973.923/092 676 $aB 700 $aDallek$b Robert$0221514 701 $aDallek$b Robert$0221514 701 $aDallek$b Robert$0221514 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811704603321 996 $aLyndon B. Johnson$91218910 997 $aUNINA