Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written

by Doris Kearns Goodwin Narrated by Gabra Zackman, Jim Frangione

Overview

Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography.

From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she became fascinated by the man—his character, his enormous energy and drive, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power. As a member of his White House staff, she soon became his personal confidante, and in the years before his death he revealed himself to her as he did to no other.

Widely praised and enormously popular, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant, conflicted humanity.

A Simon & Schuster audio production.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

The most penetrating, fascinating political biography I have ever read . . . No other President has had a biographer who had such access to his private thoughts.” —The New York Times

“Magnificent, brilliant, illuminating...A profound analysis of both the private and the public man.” —Miami Herald

“Kearns has made Lyndon Johnson so whole, so understandable that the impact of the book is difficult to describe. It might have been called 'The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson,' for he comes to seem nothing so much as a figure out of Greek tragedy.” —Houston Chronicle

“A fine and shrewd book...Extraordinary...Poignant...The best [biography of LBJ] we have to date.” —Boston Globe

“Absorbing and sympathetic, warts and all.” —The Washington Post

“A grand and fascinating portrait of a most complicated, haunted, and here appealing man.” —The Village Voice

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171236038
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	10/18/2016
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	961,894

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