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Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Robert Dallek
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:424 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9780141019659
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Classifications | Dewey:973.923092 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd
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Imprint |
Penguin Books Ltd
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Publication Date |
24 February 2005 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available. Based on years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this biography follows Johnson, the 'human dynamo', from the Texas hill country to the White House. In these pages, Johson emerges as a man of towering intensity and anguished insecurity, of grandiose ambition and grave self-doubt, a man who was brilliant, crude, intimidating, compassionate, overbearing, driven. Gracefully written and delicately balanced, this singular biography reveals both the greatness and the tangled complexities of one of the most extravagant characters ever to step onto the presidential stage.
Author Biography
Robert Dallek has taught at Columbia, UCLA, and Oxford. He is currently a professor of history at Boston University. He is the author of several books, including his classic two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, Lone Star Rising and Flawed Giant and the international bestseller John F. Kennedy- An Unfinished Life, 1917-1963.
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