A White House Diary (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture) (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series) - Softcover

Lady Bird Johnson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292717490 ISBN 13: 9780292717497

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2007

Synopsis

Now available again in paperback--Lady Bird Johnson

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Review:

[A White House Diary] is an intensely personal document that reveals a woman who describes herself as 'terribly average--something like litmus paper' but who, in fact, is not average at all. Lady Bird is remarkable for the range and depths of her loves--fierce loyalties as well as small delights--and for a physical and spiritual stamina which bore her through ordeals which would have drained lesser humans. . . . History and a great many people will remember her as a valuable woman, largely immune from the antagonisms her husband aroused, who gave the best of herself to her family and her country. Towards the end, Lady Bird writes about her diary that 'Lyndon is curiously proud of it and I am touched by that. He talks more about it than I ever would.' She does not need to. It speaks, most eloquently, for itself.

Synopsis:

Originally published in 1970, "A White House Diary" is Lady Bird Johnson's intimate, behind-the-scenes account of Lyndon Johnson's presidency from November 22, 1963, to January 20, 1969. Beginning with the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy, Mrs. Johnson records the momentous events of her times, including the Great Society's War on Poverty, the national civil rights and social protest movements, her own activism on behalf of the environment, and the Vietnam War.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0292717490
• ISBN 13: 9780292717497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 856