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Author:

Woods, Randall Bennett, 1944-

Title:

LBJ : architect of American ambition / Randall B. Woods.

Publisher:

Free Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 1007 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Johnson, Lyndon B.--(Lyndon Baines),--1908-1973.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.
Politieke geschiedenis.
Verenigde Staten.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Index. 41. Roots -- 2. Growing up -- 3. College -- 4. The secretary -- 5. Lady Bird and the NYA -- 6. Congress -- 7. Pappy -- 8. War -- 9. Truman and the coming of the cold war -- 10. Coke -- 11. A populist gentlemen's club -- 12. Leader -- 13. Passing the Lord's prayer -- 14. Back from the edge -- 15. Containing the red-hots : from Dulles to the Dixie Association -- 16. Lost in space -- 17. 1960 -- 18. Camelot meets Mr. Cornpone -- 19. Hanging on -- 20. Interregnum : death and resurrection -- 21. "Kennedy was too conservative for me" -- 22. Free at last -- 23. Containment at home and abroad -- 24. "The countryside of the world" -- 25. Bobby -- 26. Barry -- 27. A new bill of rights -- 28. The crux of the matter -- 29. Daunted courage -- 30. Castro's and Kennedy's shadows -- 31. A city on the hill -- 32. Balancing act -- 33. Divisions -- 34. Civil war -- 35. Battling Dr. Strangelove -- 36. The holy land -- 37. Backlash -- 38. Of hawks and doves, vultures and chickens -- 39. Tet -- 40. A midsummer nightmare -- 41. Touching the void -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

ISBN:

9780684834580
0684834588

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65820366

LCCN:

2006041259

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