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Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

Julia Sweig
Lady Bird Johnson Hiding in Plain Sight Book PDF

Author : Julia Sweig
Publisher : Random House
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812995916

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Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A revelation . . . a book in the Caro mold, using Lady Bird, along with tapes and transcripts of her entire White House diary, to tell the history of America during the Johnson years.”—The New York Times The inspiration for the documentary film The Lady Bird Diaries, premiering November 13 on Hulu Perhaps the most underestimated First Lady of the twentieth century, Lady Bird Johnson was also one of the most powerful. In Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, Julia Sweig reveals how indispensable the First Lady was to Lyndon Johnson’s administration—which Lady Bird called “our” presidency. In addition to advising him through critical moments, she took on her own policy initiatives, including the most ambitious national environmental effort since Theodore Roosevelt and a virtually unknown initiative to desegregate access to public recreation and national parks in Washington, D.C. Where no presidential biographer has understood Lady Bird’s full impact, Julia Sweig is the first to draw substantially on her White House diaries and to place her center stage. In doing so, Sweig reveals a woman ahead of her time—and an accomplished strategist and politician in her own right. Winner of the Texas Book Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bogard Weld Award

Lady Bird

Jan Jarboe Russell
Lady Bird Book PDF

Author : Jan Jarboe Russell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501152887

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Lady Bird by Jan Jarboe Russell Pdf

Includes an excerpt from Jan Jarboe Russell's The Train to Crystal City.

Lady Bird Johnson

Michael L. Gillette
Lady Bird Johnson Book PDF

Author : Michael L. Gillette
Publisher : Oxford Oral History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190233079

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Lady Bird Johnson by Michael L. Gillette Pdf

Over a span of 14 years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded 37 oral history interviews with the author. These newly released conversations comprise the compelling narrative of this book, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation into one of America's most effective and admired first ladies.

Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment

Lewis L. Gould
Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment Book PDF

Author : Lewis L. Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015006600103

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Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment by Lewis L. Gould Pdf

Gould (American history, U. of Texas-Austin) has dusted off, updated, and thinned his 1988 Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment to kick off the new series on the wives of US presidents. He draws on Johnson's White House papers and interviews with her and her close associates to argue that she was one of the most politically active First Ladies though her concern with the environment was overshadowed by protests against the Vietnam War. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Lady Bird and Lyndon

Betty Boyd Caroli
Lady Bird and Lyndon Book PDF

Author : Betty Boyd Caroli
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439191248

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Lady Bird and Lyndon by Betty Boyd Caroli Pdf

This “smartly written…stunning” (The Boston Globe) portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, and ballast for her husband Lyndon offers “a penetrating analysis…of a marriage that paired two complicated but devoted figures, a coupling that changed the face of America” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Marriage is the most underreported story in political life, yet it is often the key to its success. Historian Betty Boyd Caroli spent seven years exploring the archives of the LBJ Library, interviewing dozens of people, and mining never-before-released letters between Lady Bird and Lyndon. The result “redefines the First Lady as an iron fist in a white glove” (Vanity Fair) and helps explain how the talented, but flawed Lyndon Baines Johnson ended up making history. Lady Bird grew up the daughter of a domineering father and a cultured but fragile mother. When a tall, pushy Texan named Lyndon showed up in her life, they married within weeks with a tacit agreement: this highly gifted politician would take her away, and she would save him from his weaknesses. The conventional story goes that Lyndon married Lady Bird for her money and demeaned her by flaunting his many affairs, and that her legacy was protecting the nation’s wildflowers. But Caroli shows that she was also the one who swooped in to make the key call to a donor, to keep the team united, to campaign in hostile territory, and to jump-start Lyndon out of his paralyzing dark moods. In Lady Bird and Lyndon, Caroli restores Lady Bird to her rightful place in history. But she also tells a love story whose compromises and edifying moments many women will recognize.

Destiny of Democracy

Mark K. Updegrove
Destiny of Democracy Book PDF

Author : Mark K. Updegrove
Publisher : LBJ Library & Briscoe Center Ut-Austin
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89124309923

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Destiny of Democracy by Mark K. Updegrove Pdf

A companion volume to the historic 2014 summit hosted by the LBJ Presidential Library and attended by four presidents to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act.

The Triumph of Nancy Reagan

Karen Tumulty
The Triumph of Nancy Reagan Book PDF

Author : Karen Tumulty
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501165207

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The Triumph of Nancy Reagan by Karen Tumulty Pdf

The made-in-Hollywood marriage of Ronald and Nancy Reagan was the partnership that made him president. Nancy understood how to foster his strengths and compensate for his weaknesses-- and made herself a place in history. Tumulty shows how Nancy's confidence developed, and reveals new details surrounding Reagan's tumultuous presidency that shows how Nancy became one of the most influential first ladies in history. -- adapted from jacket

The Texas White House

John Whitlock
The Texas White House Book PDF

Author : John Whitlock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578428253

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The Texas White House by John Whitlock Pdf

Version 2 of original. Stories and photographs from inside and outside the 36th president's home in the Texas Hill Country. Book written by a former park superintendent who worked with the Johnson family to transform the ranch house from private residence to public museum. The stories are those shared with him by family, friends and associates of the President and First Lady.

The Roosevelt Women

Betty Boyd Caroli
The Roosevelt Women Book PDF

Author : Betty Boyd Caroli
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781541672765

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The Roosevelt Women by Betty Boyd Caroli Pdf

The Roosevelt name conjures up images of powerful Presidents and dashing men of high society. But few people know much about the extraordinary network of women that held the Roosevelt clan together through war, scandal, and disease. In The Roosevelt Women, Betty Boyd Caroli weaves together stories culled from a rich store of letters, memoirs, and interviews to chronicle nine extraordinary Roosevelt women across a century and a half of turbulent history.She examines the Roosevelt women as mothers, daughters, wives, and, beyond that, as world travelers, authors, campaigners, and socialites—in short, as themselves. She reveals how they demonstrated the energy and intellectual curiosity that defined their famous family, as well as the roles they played in the intrigues, scandals, and accomplishments that were hallmarks of the Roosevelt clan. From the much maligned Sara Delano (who sired Franklin and by turns terrified and supported Eleanor) to Theodore's irrepressible daughter, Alice (”I can either rule the country or control Alice,” Teddy once said) to the beloved Bamie, who was the only mother Alice ever knew, and the model of everything she never was in life, to the exceptionally beautiful but ultimately overwhelmed Mittie, Theodore's mother, The Roosevelt Women is an intricate portrait of bold and talented women, a grand tale of both unbearable tragedies and triumphant achievements.

Lbj's Texas White House

Hal Rothman
Lbj s Texas White House Book PDF

Author : Hal Rothman
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1585441414

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Lbj's Texas White House by Hal Rothman Pdf

It is a story of the relationship between power and place in American culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Lady Bird Johnson

Lewis L. Gould
Lady Bird Johnson Book PDF

Author : Lewis L. Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015043405565

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Lady Bird Johnson by Lewis L. Gould Pdf

Gould has dusted off, updated, and thinned his 1988 "Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment" to kick off the new series on the wives of US presidents.

A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson

Mitchell B. Lerner
A Companion to Lyndon B Johnson Book PDF

Author : Mitchell B. Lerner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444333893

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A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson by Mitchell B. Lerner Pdf

This companion offers an overview of Lyndon B. Johnson's life, presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the central arguments and scholarly debates from his term in office. Explores the legacy of Johnson and the historical significance of his years as president Covers the full range of topics, from the social and civil rights reforms of the Great Society to the increased American involvement in Vietnam Incorporates the dramatic new evidence that has come to light through the release of around 8,000 phone conversations and meetings that Johnson secretly recorded as President

Washington's Iron Butterfly

Donald A. Ritchie,Terry L. Birdwhistell
Washington s Iron Butterfly Book PDF

Author : Donald A. Ritchie,Terry L. Birdwhistell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813182285

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Washington's Iron Butterfly by Donald A. Ritchie,Terry L. Birdwhistell Pdf

Had Elizabeth "Bess" Clements Abell (1933–2020) been a boy, she would likely have become a politician like her father, Earle C. Clements. Effectively barred from office because of her gender, she forged her own path by helping family friends Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. Abell's Secret Service code name, "Iron Butterfly," exemplified her graceful but firm management of social life in the Johnson White House. After Johnson's administration ended, she maintained her importance in Washington, DC, serving as chief of staff to Joan Mondale and cofounding a public relations company. Donald A. Ritchie and Terry L. Birdwhistell draw on Abell's own words and those of others known to her to tell her remarkable story. Focusing on her years working for the Johnson campaign and her time in the White House, this engaging oral history provides a window into Abell's life as well as an insider's view of the nation's capital during the tumultuous 1960s.

The Passage of Power

Robert A. Caro
The Passage of Power Book PDF

Author : Robert A. Caro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307960467

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The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro Pdf

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE Book Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as “one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece.” The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark. By 1958, as Johnson began to maneuver for the presidency, he was known as one of the most brilliant politicians of his time, the greatest Senate Leader in our history. But the 1960 nomination would go to the young senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy. Caro gives us an unparalleled account of the machinations behind both the nomination and Kennedy’s decision to offer Johnson the vice presidency, revealing the extent of Robert Kennedy’s efforts to force Johnson off the ticket. With the consummate skill of a master storyteller, he exposes the savage animosity between Johnson and Kennedy’s younger brother, portraying one of America’s great political feuds. Yet Robert Kennedy’s overt contempt for Johnson was only part of the burden of humiliation and isolation he bore as Vice President. With a singular understanding of Johnson’s heart and mind, Caro describes what it was like for this mighty politician to find himself altogether powerless in a world in which power is the crucial commodity. For the first time, in Caro’s breathtakingly vivid narrative, we see the Kennedy assassination through Lyndon Johnson’s eyes. We watch Johnson step into the presidency, inheriting a staff fiercely loyal to his slain predecessor; a Congress determined to retain its power over the executive branch; and a nation in shock and mourning. We see how within weeks—grasping the reins of the presidency with supreme mastery—he propels through Congress essential legislation that at the time of Kennedy’s death seemed hopelessly logjammed and seizes on a dormant Kennedy program to create the revolutionary War on Poverty. Caro makes clear how the political genius with which Johnson had ruled the Senate now enabled him to make the presidency wholly his own. This was without doubt Johnson’s finest hour, before his aspirations and accomplishments were overshadowed and eroded by the trap of Vietnam. In its exploration of this pivotal period in Johnson’s life—and in the life of the nation—The Passage of Power is not only the story of how he surmounted unprecedented obstacles in order to fulfill the highest purpose of the presidency but is, as well, a revelation of both the pragmatic potential in the presidency and what can be accomplished when the chief executive has the vision and determination to move beyond the pragmatic and initiate programs designed to transform a nation. It is an epic story told with a depth of detail possible only through the peerless research that forms the foundation of Robert Caro’s work, confirming Nicholas von Hoffman’s verdict that “Caro has changed the art of political biography.”

Love Lords and Lady-Birds

Barbara Cartland
Love Lords and Lady Birds Book PDF

Author : Barbara Cartland
Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788673884

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Love Lords and Lady-Birds by Barbara Cartland Pdf

Running away from the school that she hates, headstrong and rebellious, beautiful young Petrina Lyndon clambers over a wall into a country road, flinging her bag over before her and narrowly missing a dashingly handsome young Earl, to whom she complains about the ‘horrible, beastly’ Guardian who placed her at the school and how he never listens to her. She is even more shocked when the Earl reveals that he himself is actually her Guardian, the Earl of Staverton. And although he is not the elderly ‘stuffed shirt’ she expected, he is cold and unfriendly and unimpressed by her stated desire to go to London and become one of the ‘Lady-Birds’ that she has heard so much about. She tells the Earl that she wants to enjoy herself and not get married to some boring and stuffy aristocrat. The Earl is horrified at this unseemly and ignorant revelation and tells her so in no uncertain terms. Determined to dissuade her from a path that would lead her into depravity and danger the Earl insists that she allows him to launch her into Society as a debutante in an effort to marry her off. But Petrina has very different ideas. And she resolves to somehow steal his Lordship’s heart!