LBJ : a life /

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...

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Main Author: Unger, Irwin
Other Authors: Unger, Debi
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: New York : Wiley, ©1999.
Subjects:
Johnson, Lyndon B. > (Lyndon Baines), > 1908-1973.
Johnson, Lyndon B. > (Lyndon Baines), > 1908-1973
Johnson, Lyndon B.
1963-1969
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Politics and government
Presidents.
United States > Politics and government > 1963-1969.
United States.
7.150.
Biographies.
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Table of 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.

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