Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960: Vol. 1: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960 - Softcover

Dallek, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195079043 ISBN 13: 9780195079043

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Like other great figures of 20th-century American politics, Lyndon Johnson defies easy understanding. An unrivaled master of vote swapping, back room deals, and election-day skulduggery, he was nevertheless an outspoken New Dealer with a genuine commitment to the poor and the underprivileged. And he was also a representative figure. Johnson's career speaks volumes about American politics, foreign policy, and business in the forty years after 1930. As Charles de Gaulle said when he came to JFK's funeral: Kennedy was America's mask, but this man Johnson is the country's real face.

In Lone Star Rising, Robert Dallek, winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his study of Franklin D. Roosevelt, turns to this fascinating "sinner and saint" to offer a brilliant, definitive portrait of a great American politician. Based on seven years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this first book in a two-volume biography follows Johnson's life from his childhood to his election as vice-president under Kennedy. We see Johnson, the twenty-three-year-old aide to a pampered millionaire Representative, become a de facto Congressman, and at age twenty-eight the country's best state director of the National Youth Administration.

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Review:

`A triumphant portrait...It should stand for years to come as the most rounded portrait we have of this compelling, formidable, flawed giant.' Doris Kearns Goodwin

'This volume takes us up to his selection as vice-president and is awesomely detailed.'Sunday Times

About the Author:

Robert Dallek is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, for which he won a Babcroft Prize and was nominated for an American Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0195079043
• ISBN 13: 9780195079043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 754