Lyndon Johnson And The American Dream

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497683853

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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin Pdf

With a new foreword: The New York Times–bestselling biography of President Lyndon Johnson from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Team of Rivals. Featuring a 2018 foreword by the Pulitzer Prize–winning political historian that celebrates a reappraisal of Lyndon Johnson’s legacy five decades after his presidency, from the vantage point of our current, profoundly altered political culture and climate, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s extraordinary and insightful biography draws from meticulous research in addition to the author’s time spent working at the White House from 1967 to 1969. After Johnson’s term ended, Goodwin remained his confidante and assisted in the preparation of his memoir. In Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, she traces the 36th president’s life from childhood to his early days in politics, and from his leadership of the Senate to his presidency, analyzing his dramatic years in the White House, including both his historic domestic triumphs and his failures in Vietnam. Drawing on personal anecdotes and candid conversation with Johnson, Goodwin paints a rich and complicated portrait of one of our nation’s most compelling politicians in “the most penetrating, fascinating political biography I have ever read” (The New York Times).

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 0233968393

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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin Pdf

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29T22:59:00Z
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781669395799

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Summary of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Lyndon Johnson’s mother, Rebekah, was a dreamy young girl who had spent her afternoons reading poetry under the shade of the big trees in the gardens of their house. She projected herself as a moral example to her son. #2 Sam Johnson’s mother, Rebekah, had the same experience as Lyndon’s mother. She was a cultured woman who lost her father when she was young, and she married a small-time farmer and trader. She had to adjust to a completely different life. #3 Johnson’s mother, Rebekah, was extremely discontent with her life with Sam Johnson. She felt alone and miserable, and she constantly fought with him over how the household was managed. #4 The Baines family code was very strict about sobriety, and it was a guarantee of reliability and industry. Sobriety was a promise of morality and economic success. When Rebekah saw her husband drink, she saw how badly it affected him, and she cried a lot.

Author : Lyndon Baines Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : African Americans
ISBN : SRLF:A0012173266

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Remarks of the President to a Joint Session of the Congress by Lyndon Baines Johnson Pdf

Author : Joseph A. Califano
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476794761

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The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson by Joseph A. Califano Pdf

Describes Johnson's obsession with Vietnam and his manipulation of Congress and the economy to achieve his goals.

Author : Sang-Dawn Lee
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0739104357

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Big Brother, Little Brother by Sang-Dawn Lee Pdf

Big Brother, Little Brother provides a fascinating case study of the impact of American culture on South Korea during the Johnson administration.

Author : Robert A. Caro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 41,5 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.”

Author : Nick Kotz
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618641831

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Judgment Days by Nick Kotz Pdf

Opposites in almost every way, mortally suspicious of each other at first, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr., were thrust together in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Both men sensed a historic opportunity and began a delicate dance of accommodation that moved them, and the entire nation, toward the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources -- Johnson's taped telephone conversations, voluminous FBI wiretap logs, previously secret communications between the FBI and the president -- Nick Kotz gives us a dramatic narrative, rich in dialogue, that presents this momentous period with thrilling immediacy. Judgment Days offers needed perspective on a presidency too often linked solely to the tragedy of Vietnam.We watch Johnson applying the arm-twisting tactics that made him a legend in the Senate, and we follow King as he keeps the pressure on in the South through protest and passive resistance. King's pragmatism and strategic leadership and Johnson's deeply held commitment to a just society shaped the character of their alliance. Kotz traces the inexorable convergence of their paths to an intense joint effort that made civil rights a legislative reality at last, despite FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's vicious whispering campaign to destroy King.Judgment Days also reveals how this spirit of teamwork disintegrated. The two leaders parted bitterly over King's opposition to the Vietnam War. In this first full account of the working relationship between Johnson and King, Kotz offers a detailed, surprising account that significantly enriches our understanding of both men and their time.

Author : Jeff Shesol
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393345971

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Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol Pdf

"Mutual Contempt is at once a fascinating study in character and an illuminating meditation on the role character can play in shaping history."—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy loathed each other. Their antagonism, propelled by clashing personalities, contrasting views, and a deep, abiding animosity, would drive them to a bitterness so deep that even civil conversation was often impossible. Played out against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s, theirs was a monumental political battle that would shape federal policy, fracture the Democratic party, and have a lasting effect on the politics of our times. Drawing on previously unexamined recordings and documents, as well as memoirs, biographies, and scores of personal interviews, Jeff Shesol weaves the threads of this epic story into a compelling narrative that reflects the impact of LBJ and RFK's tumultuous relationship on politics, civil rights, the war on poverty, and the war in Vietnam. As Publishers Weekly noted, "This is indispensable reading for both experts on the period and newcomers to the history of that decade." "An exhaustive and fascinating history. . . . Shesol's grasp of the era's history is sure, his tale often entertaining, and his research awesome."—Russell Baker, New York Review of Books "Thorough, provocative. . . . The story assumes the dimensions of a great drama played out on a stage too vast to comprehend."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1997 Critic's Choice) "This is the most gripping political book of recent years."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Author : Robert Dallek
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195054350

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Lone Star Rising by Robert Dallek Pdf

Volume one of a two-volume biography follows Johnson's life from his childhood on the banks of the Pedernales to his election as vice president under Kennedy.

Author : John A. Andrew
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047060721

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Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society by John A. Andrew Pdf

In this narrative analysis, Mr. Andrew examines the underlying ideas and principle objectives of the most ambitious and controversial American reform effort since the New Deal-in the areas of civil rights, poverty, health, education, urban life, and consumer issues.

Author : Calvin C. Jillson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059156219

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Pursuing the American Dream by Calvin C. Jillson Pdf

Marked by continuity, renewal, and expansion, the image of the Dream, Jillson contends, has been remarkably constant since well before the American Revolution - an image of a nation offering a better chance for prosperity than any other. His book reveals how that Dream has motivated our nation s leaders and common citizens to move, sometimes grudgingly, toward a more open, diverse, and genuinely competitive society.

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781781313169

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Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin Pdf

When historian Goodwin was six years old, her father taught her how to keep score for ‘their’ team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, which forged a lifelong bond between father and daughter. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is a coming-of-age memoir in the era of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider, when baseball truly was a national pastime that brought whole communities together. With her radio by her side and scorecard to hand, she recreates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. Weaved between the games and the seasons, Goodwin tells the story of a changing America – from the lunacy of the Cold War alarm drills to McCarthy and the Rosenburg trials – as well as her own loss of innocence encapsulated by her mother’s death, her father’s lapse into despair and the Dodger’s departure from Brooklyn in 1957 following the destruction of the iconic Ebbets Field stadium. Poignant, unsentimental and deeply eloquent, Wait Till Next Year is a profound memoir about childhood and loss, baseball, and the power of sport to bind families and heal loss and reveal as metaphor the evolving heart of a nation.

Author : George C. Herring
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813938516

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The War Bells Have Rung by George C. Herring Pdf

In the summer of 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson faced an agonizing decision. On June 7, General William Westmoreland had come to him with a "bombshell" request to more than double the number of existing troops in Vietnam. LBJ, who wished to be remembered as a great reformer, not as a war president, saw the proposed escalation for what it was—the turning point for American involvement in Vietnam. This is one of the most discussed chapters in modern presidential history, but George Herring, the acknowledged dean of Vietnam War historians, has found a fascinating new way to tell this story—through the remarkable legacy of LBJ’s taped telephone conversations. Underused until now in exploring Johnson’s decision making in Vietnam, the phone conversations offer intimate, striking, and sometimes poignant insights into this ordeal. Johnson emerges as a fascinating character, obligated to pursue victory in Vietnam but skeptical that it is even possible, the whole while watching his plans for domestic reform threatened. The president walks a fine line between a military he must placate and a Congress whose support he must maintain as he tries to implement his Great Society legislation. The reader can see the flaws in the Cold War sensibility contributing to Johnson’s tragic attempt to hold ground against an enemy with whom he had no leverage. The cast includes many of the era’s most iconic players, such as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, General Westmoreland ("I have a lot riding on you," LBJ tells him—"I hope you don’t pull a MacArthur on me!"), House minority leader Gerald Ford, anti-war advocate Robert Kennedy ("I think you’ve got to sit down and talk to Bobby," LBJ tells McNamara), and former president Eisenhower, a valuable contact in the Republican camp. A concise, inside look at seven critical weeks in 1965—presented as a Rotunda ebook linking to transcripts and audio files of the original presidential tapes— The War Bells Have Rung offers both student and scholar a vivid and accessible look at a decision on which LBJ’s presidency would pivot and that would change modern American history. Miller Center Studies on the Presidency is a new series of original works that draw on the Miller Center's scholarly programs to shed light on the American presidency past and present.

Author : Joshua Zeitz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698191594

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Building the Great Society by Joshua Zeitz Pdf

The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform, to Medicare and Head Start. "Absorbing, and astoundingly well-researched -- all good historians do their homework, but Zeitz goes above and beyond. It's a more than worthwhile addition to the canon of books about Johnson."--NPR "Beautifully written...a riveting portrait of LBJ... Every officeholder in Washington would profit from reading this book." --Robert Dallek, Author of An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 and Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life LBJ's towering political skills and his ambitious slate of liberal legislation are the stuff of legend: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and environmental reform. But what happened after the bills passed? One man could not and did not go it alone. Joshua Zeitz reanimates the creative and contentious atmosphere inside Johnson's White House as a talented and energetic group of advisers made LBJ's vision a reality. They desegregated public and private institutions throughout one third of the United States; built Medicare and Medicaid from the ground up in one year; launched federal funding for public education; provided food support for millions of poor children and adults; and launched public television and radio, all in the space of five years, even as Vietnam strained the administration's credibility and budget. Bill Moyers, Jack Valenti, Joe Califano, Harry McPherson and the other staff members who comprised LBJ's inner circle were men as pragmatic and ambitious as Johnson, equally skilled in the art of accumulating power or throwing a sharp elbow. Building the Great Society is the story of how one of the most competent White House staffs in American history - serving one of the most complicated presidents ever to occupy the Oval Office - fundamentally changed everyday life for millions of citizens and forged a legacy of compassionate and interventionist government.