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Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson
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by Ronnie Dugger
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 516 pages
Published by: Konecky January 1, 1982
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1568524072
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1568524078
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.6 x 1.9 inches
Weighs: 2.2 pounds
Product Description
Ronnie Dugger is a scholar, journalist, author, and deeply rooted Texan who witnessed firsthand the career of Lyndon Johnson, who is here portrayed as an enormously energetic man of equally enormous contradictions. His inherited populism was at odds with and, in the end, was destroyed by his lust for power. He was a liberal who nonetheless played toady to oil, power, and construction interests; a politician who worked to make a better life for the poor and yet shamelessly used politics to become wealthy; a true macho frontiersman who stayed home when war came and glorified his one combat experience for political gain. Here, also, is the other Johnson: the president who, the author believes, did more for civil rights than any president including Lincoln. This book is not only a biography of Lyndon Johnson but an attempt to understand fifty years of American history, the period the author calls the Johnson Era.
About The Author
RONNIE DUGGER was editor and publisher of the Texas Observer the only paper in Texas that opposed the native son for president in 1960. While Lyndon Johnson often reviled his cr he respected the serious ones and spent a lot of tune and effort trying to win them over. Johnson called Dugger out to his ranch to seek his support, and during the '50s and '60s granted him long hours of interviews hi both Texas and Washington, in the Senate and in the White House.
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