November, 1963. An assassin's bullet catapults Lyndon Baines Johnson into the presidency. A Shakespearean figure of towering ambition and appetite, this charismatic, conflicted Texan hurls himself into the passage of the Civil Rights Act -- a tinderbox issue emblematic of a divided America -- even as he campaigns for reelection in his own right, and the recognition he so desperately wants.
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