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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 : 51,7 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 Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

Julia Sweig
Lady Bird Johnson Hiding in Plain Sight Book PDF

Author : Julia Sweig
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812985849

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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 : 41,8 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 : 54,9 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.

Pat Nixon

Mary C. Brennan
Pat Nixon Book PDF

Author : Mary C. Brennan
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780700636051

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Pat Nixon by Mary C. Brennan Pdf

Pat Nixon may be the least understood of modern first ladies. Although public opinion polls rated her one of our nation's most admired women, few Americans really knew much about her. This first scholarly biography of Thelma Ryan Nixon—the first biography in thirty-five years and the first to access her papers-goes further than any other book to show readers the real Pat Nixon. Lester David's The Lonely Lady of San Clemente painted her as a tragic figure while Julie Nixon Eisenhower's adoring Pat Nixon: The Untold Story fell short of offering an objective portrait. Now Mary Brennan moves beyond the oversimplified appraisals of this neglected first lady to provide a powerful study of a complex and fascinating presidential spouse. Drawing on Mrs. Nixon's recently opened papers-as well as on recollections of both friends and adversaries—Brennan debunks the myth of "Plastic Pat" and fleshes out the real woman behind the stories and stereotypes. The Nixons had more in common with small-town Americans than with Washington society, and Brennan shows that part of Pat's difficulty in dealing with the political world was that she never quite left the "normal" Pat behind. Political and social upheaval during her husband's presidency further complicated her role as first lady, as she had to confront a shifting cultural terrain with the whole world watching. Brennan emphasizes Pat's activism—the first presidential wife to serve as official government representative, as well as the most traveled—and examines her complicated relationship with her husband. Often seen as a "good soldier," Pat, in reality, engaged in constant warfare with her husband and his advisers as she tried to protect her own schedule from interference from the West Wing. Blending empathy and objectivity, Brennan shows that Pat Nixon was a strong woman caught up in circumstances beyond her control who did as her ancestors had done: gritted her teeth and got the job done as best she could. This account of an embattled first lady opens a new window on the Nixon years and finally allows Pat Nixon to take center stage in her own life.

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 : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 9781439191224

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Lady Bird and Lyndon by Betty Boyd Caroli Pdf

"Marriage is the most underreported story in political life and yet is often the key to its success. This is the idea driving a revealing new portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, peacemaker, and ballast for Lyndon...[A] biography of a political partnership that helps explain how the wildly talented but deeply flawed Lyndon Baines Johnson ended up making history..."--P. [2] of jacket.

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 : 47,7 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

On Her Trail

John Dickerson
On Her Trail Book PDF

Author : John Dickerson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501130670

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On Her Trail by John Dickerson Pdf

The author examines his stormy relationship with his mother, describing her role as a pioneering woman journalist, the lavish political soirees that marked his parents' marriage, and his feelings about his mother's perpetual absence throughout his youth.

Elizabeth the Queen

Sally Bedell Smith
Elizabeth the Queen Book PDF

Author : Sally Bedell Smith
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812979794

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Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This “excellent, all-embracing” (The New York Times) biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a magisterial study of the woman known only from a distance—and a captivating window into her decades-long reign. From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II was the object of unparalleled scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well did we really know the world’s most famous monarch? Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II, who led her country and Commonwealth through the wars and upheavals of the last twentieth and twenty-first centuries with unparalleled composure, intelligence, and grace. In Elizabeth the Queen, we meet the young girl who suddenly becomes “heiress presumptive” when her uncle abdicates the throne. We meet the thirteen-year-old Lilibet as she falls in love with a young navy cadet named Philip and becomes determined to marry him, even though her parents prefer wealthier English aristocrats. We see the teenage Lilibet repairing army trucks during World War II and standing with Winston Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on V-E Day. We see the young Queen struggling to balance the demands of her job with her role as the mother of two young children. Sally Bedell Smith brings us inside the palace doors and into the Queen’s daily routines—the “red boxes” of documents she reviewed each day, the weekly meetings she had with twelve prime ministers, her physically demanding tours abroad, and the constant scrutiny of the press—as well as her personal relationships: with her husband, Prince Philip, the love of her life; her children and their often-disastrous marriages; her grandchildren and friends.

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 : 44,7 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

First Lady from Plains

Rosalynn Carter
First Lady from Plains Book PDF

Author : Rosalynn Carter
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781557283559

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First Lady from Plains by Rosalynn Carter Pdf

First Lady from Plains, first published in 1984, is Rosalynn’s Carter’s autobiography, covering her life from her childhood in Plains, Georgia, through her time as First Lady. It is “a readable, lively and revealing account of the Carters and their remarkable journey from rural Georgia to the White House in a span of ten years” (The New York Times).

The Agitators

Dorothy Wickenden
The Agitators Book PDF

Author : Dorothy Wickenden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476760742

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The Agitators by Dorothy Wickenden Pdf

"From the intimate perspective of three friends and neighbors in mid-nineteenth century Auburn, New York-the "agitators" of the title-acclaimed author Dorothy Wickenden tells the fascinating and crucially American stories of abolition, the Underground Railroad, the early women's rights movement, and the Civil War. Harriet Tubman-no-nonsense, funny, uncannily prescient, and strategically brilliant-was one of the most important conductors on the underground railroad and hid the enslaved men, women and children she rescued in the basement kitchens of Martha Wright, Quaker mother of seven, and Frances Seward, wife of Governor, then Senator, then Secretary of State William H. Seward. Harriet worked for the Union Army in South Carolina as a nurse and spy, and took part in a river raid in which 750 enslaved people were freed from rice plantations. Martha, a "dangerous woman" in the eyes of her neighbors and a harsh critic of Lincoln's policy on slavery, organized women's rights and abolitionist conventions with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Frances gave freedom seekers money and referrals and aided in their education. The most conventional of the three friends, she hid her radicalism in public; behind the scenes, she argued strenuously with her husband about the urgency of immediate abolition. Many of the most prominent figures in the history books-Lincoln, Seward, Daniel Webster, Frederick Douglass, Charles Sumner, John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison-are seen through the discerning eyes of the protagonists. So are the most explosive political debates: about women's roles and rights during the abolition crusade, emancipation, and the arming of Black troops; and about the true meaning of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Beginning two decades before the Civil War, when Harriet Tubman was still enslaved and Martha and Frances were young women bound by law and tradition, The Agitators ends two decades after the war, in a radically changed United States. Wickenden brings this extraordinary period of our history to life through the richly detailed letters her characters wrote several times a week. Like Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals and David McCullough's John Adams, Wickenden's The Agitators is revelatory, riveting, and profoundly relevant to our own time"--

Wildflowers Across America

Lady Bird Johnson,Carlton B. Lees
Wildflowers Across America Book PDF

Author : Lady Bird Johnson,Carlton B. Lees
Publisher : Artabras Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Botany
ISBN : 0896600491

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Wildflowers Across America by Lady Bird Johnson,Carlton B. Lees Pdf

Presents information for increasing the use of native plants and wildflowers in America's future landscaping.

Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who!

Tracy Nelson Maurer
Lady Bird Johnson That s Who Book PDF

Author : Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250828651

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Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! by Tracy Nelson Maurer Pdf

Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! is Tracy Nelson Maurer's lively picture book biography of Lady Bird Johnson, with a focus on her environmentalist passion and legacy as First Lady. Who fought to stop pollution? Who helped make America cleaner and greener? Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! Claudia Alta Taylor was a lonely girl, shy as a butterfly growing up in Texas. She never dreamed she'd blossom into a visionary leader whose love for wildflowers, beautiful landscapes, and building community compelled her to lead the effort to combat pollution in the United States. A lifelong environmentalist, Lady Bird Johnson embraced her platform as First Lady to promote policy that beautified America’s roadways, waterways and parks, inspiring people to take pride in the places they live. With elements of women’s history, civics, and conservationism, this is a timely and informative picture book biography.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Book PDF

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307477729

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Pdf

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.