Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President - Softcover

Dallek, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141019654 ISBN 13: 9780141019659

Publisher: Penguin, 2005

Synopsis

Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. 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. In these pages, Johson 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. 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.

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Review:

"Robert Dallek, whose two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has earned widespread praise for its evenhandedness, has abridged those 1,200 pages into a 396-page, reader-friendly one-volume edition."--The Houston Chronicle

"This abridgement of Dallek's masterly two-volume biography, Lone Star Rising and Flawed Giant, is a welcome addition to the literature."--Library Journal

About the Author:

Robert Dallek has taught at Columbia, UCLA, and Oxford. He is currently a professor of history at Boston University. He is the author of several books, including his classic two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, Lone Star Rising and Flawed Giant and the international bestseller John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, 1917-1963.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0141019654
• ISBN 13: 9780141019659
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424