LBJ: Architect of American Ambition

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Harvard University Press, 2007 - 1007 pàgines

A Christian Science Monitor Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

"In his masterful new biography, Randall B. Woods convincingly makes the case for Johnson's greatness--as the last American president whose leadership achieved truly revolutionary breakthroughs in progressive domestic legislation, bringing changes that have improved the lives of most Americans. In this compelling, massive narrative, Woods portrays Johnson fairly and fully in all his complexity, with adequate attention to flaws in his character and his tragic miscalculations in Vietnam."--Nick Kotz, Washington Post Book World

"In writing LBJ: Architect of American Ambition, Woods has produced an excellent biography that fully deserves a place alongside the best of the Johnson studies yet to appear...Even readers familiar with the many other fine books on Johnson will learn a great deal from Woods...Among Woods's many achievements in this fine biography is to allow us to see not only the enormous, tragic flaws in this extraordinary man, but also the greatness."--Alan Brinkley, New York Times Book Review

A distinguished historian of twentieth-century America, Randall B. Woods offers a wholesale reappraisal and sweeping, authoritative account of the life of one of the most fascinating and complex U.S. presidents.

 

Continguts

Roots
5
Growing Up
20
College
44
The Secretary
70
Lady Bird and the NYA
92
Congress
116
Pappy
138
War
158
The Countryside of the World
501
Bobby
519
Barry
539
A New Bill of Rights
557
The Crux of the Matter
574
Daunted Courage
593
Castros and Kennedys Shadows
621
A City on the Hill
649

Truman and the Coming of the Cold War
179
Coke
196
A Populist Gentlemens Club
219
Leader
248
Passing the Lords Prayer
274
Back from the Edge
291
Containing the RedHots From Dulles to the Dixie Association
313
Lost in Space
332
1960
352
Camelot Meets Mr Cornpone
375
Hanging On
400
Interregnum Death and Resurrection
415
Kennedy Was Too Conservative for Me
440
Free at Last
467
Containment at Home and Abroad
483
Balancing Act
672
Divisions
693
Civil War
715
Battling Dr Strangelove
739
The Holy Land
759
Backlash
783
Of Hawks and Doves Vultures and Chickens
798
Tet
818
A Midsummer Nightmare
838
Touching the Void
865
Notes
885
Acknowledgments
957
Index
959
Copyright

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Sobre l'autor (2007)

Randall B. Woods is John A. Cooper Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. He is also the author of the widely praised Fulbright: A Biography.

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