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Language: en
Pages: 464
Authors: Joseph A. Califano
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-03 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Describes Johnson's obsession with Vietnam and his manipulation of Congress and the economy to achieve his goals.
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Pages: 464
Authors: Joseph A. Califano
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-03 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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One of “Five Best Books about Wartime Presidents”—Michael Bechloss, The Wall Street Journal From Lyndon Johnson’s closest domestic adviser during the Wh
Flawed Giant
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Pages: 785
Authors: Robert Dallek
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Lone Star Rising, the first volume in Robert Dallek's biography of LBJ, was hailed as "a triumphant portrait of Lyndon Johnson as rich and oversized and complex
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and presidency collapsed in the tragedy of the Vietnam War Few fi
The Fierce Urgency of Now
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Authors: Julian E. Zelizer
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A majestic big-picture account of the Great Society and the forces that shaped it, from Lyndon Johnson and members of Congress to the civil rights movement and