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Power Beyond Reason: The Mental Collapse of Lyndon Johnson
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by D. Jablow Hershman and Gerald Tolchin
Sales Rank: 1376736
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 368 pages
Published by: Barricade Books September 1, 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1569802432
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1569802434
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Reader Reviews
Most professional mental health specialists would eschew diagnosing a pateint they have never met. That's what, to my understanding, this book purports to do; and while it is an interesting thesis, one has to wonder about the ethics of the work if that is indeed what the author is intending. (It might not be; I looked at a copy in the bookstore, since I have an extensive collection of LBJ books, and was wondering if this one was worth adding to it. It isn't.) No one has ever maintained that Lyndon Johnson was just an ordinary guy. He was a driven man, to say the least, capable of working hours that would exhaust most people, and prone to illness whenever his political future was in doubt. I do not doubt that his Vietnam policies were a grave mistake -- nor did his mentor in the US Senate, Richard Russell. (see John Goldsmith's excellent volume on the two men, "Colleagues") And LBJ himself, as one of the tapes transcribed in the excellent work of Michael Beschloss, had serious doubts about the enterprise. But the whole Vietnam experience can be attributed, not to some hypothetical diagnosis of mental illness of the presidfent at the time, but to the systemic mind-set of the nation's ruling class, a mind-set that, because of its presuppositions as to America's role in the world, could not but encourage greater US involvement in Southeast Asia. And therein lies the tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: for this man had the intelligence and foresight to see where such a mind-set was leading him, his country, and his beloved Great Society...and yet he could not do anything but pour in more and more troops. The person wishing a balanced and professional portrait of the man who I am convinced would have been, but for that stupid war, our greatest president would be far wiser to consult Robert Caro (especially "Master of the Senate") and Doris Kearns Goodwin (if you want a psychological angle based in actual contact with the subject) than this book.
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