Best Lyndon Johnson Biography - April 2024

Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President

Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael Beschloss, in The Los Angeles Times, said that it "succeeds brilliantly." The New York Times called it "rock solid" and The Washington Post hailed it as "invaluable." And Sidney Blumenthal in The Boston Globe wrote that it was "dense with astonishing incidents." Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available. Based on years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195159217
• ASIN: 0195159217
• ISBN: 0195159217
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

• ASIN: B002GKGB0U
• ASIN: B002GKGB0U
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Flawed Giant: Lyndon B. Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973

• ASIN: 0195054652
• ASIN: 0195054652
• ISBN: 0195054652
• Brand: Oxford University Press
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II

• ASIN: B005LALFT4
• ASIN: B005LALFT4
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years

One of “Five Best Books about Wartime Presidents”—Michael Bechloss, The Wall Street Journal From Lyndon Johnson’s closest domestic adviser during the White House years comes a book in which “Johnson leaps out of the pages in all his raw and earthy glory” (The New York Times Book Review) that’s been called “a joy to read” (Stephen Ambrose, The Washington Post Book World). And now, a new introductory essay brings the reader up to date on Johnson’s impact on America today.Califano takes us into the Oval Office as the decisions that irrevocably changed the United States were be... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476798796
• ASIN: 1476798796
• ISBN: 1476798796
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies

In this New York Times bestseller, the White House chief usher for nearly three decades offers a behind-the-scenes look at America’s first families.  J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—and coordinated its daily life—at the request of the president and his family. He directed state functions; planned parties, weddings and funerals, gardens and playgrounds, and extensive renovations; and, with a large staff, supervised every activity in the presidential home. For twenty-eight years, first as assistant to the chie... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00F3QYL06
• ASIN: B00F3QYL06
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

LBJ: A Life

From a Pulitzer prize-winning writer, the only single-volume biography of the towering yet enigmatic leader--from his humble origins to his rise to America's highest office. Flawed as a human being, Lyndon Johnson was a towering public figure of his era, a man whose social programs changed America in profound ways. In this compelling new biography, Irwin and Debi Unger explore the political and personal influences that made Johnson such an unpredictable, charismatic, and difficult man, depicting his life as a constant tension between political expediency and doing the right thing for Americans... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0471176028
• ASIN: 0471176028
• ISBN: 0471176028
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III

• ASIN: B002IPZBPO
• ASIN: B002IPZBPO
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

With a new foreword: The New York Times–bestselling biography of President Lyndon Johnson from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Team of Rivals.   Featuring a 2018 foreword by the Pulitzer Prize–winning political historian that celebrates a reappraisal of Lyndon Johnson’s legacy five decades after his presidency, from the vantage point of our current, profoundly altered political culture and climate, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s extraordinary and insightful biography draws from meticulous research in addition to the author’s time spent working at the White House from 1967 to 1969. Af... [Read More]

• ASIN: B010P21I1W
• ASIN: B010P21I1W
• Brand: Open Road Media
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President

This “smartly written…stunning” (The Boston Globe) portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, and ballast for her husband Lyndon offers “a penetrating analysis…of a marriage that paired two complicated but devoted figures, a coupling that changed the face of America” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).Marriage is the most underreported story in political life, yet it is often the key to its success. Historian Betty Boyd Caroli spent seven years exploring the archives of the LBJ Library, interviewing dozens of people, and mining never-before-released letters ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00UDCNMXW
• ASIN: B00UDCNMXW
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Lyndon B. Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 36th President, 1963-1969

The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and presidency collapsed in the tragedy of the Vietnam WarFew figures in American history are as compelling and complex as Lyndon Baines Johnson, who established himself as the master of the U.S. Senate in the 1950s and succeeded John F. Kennedy in the White House after Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963.Charles Peters, a keen observer of Washington politics for more than five decades, tells the story of Johnson's presidency as the tale of an immensely talented politician driven by ambition... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0805082395
• ASIN: 0805082395
• ISBN: 0805082395
• Manufacturer: Times Books

The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEBook Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as “one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece.” The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extrao... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375713255
• ASIN: 0375713255
• ISBN: 9780375713255
• Brand: Vintage Books
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, The Power Broker is a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York in the twentieth century. Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, C... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0394720245
• ASIN: 0394720245
• ISBN: 0394720245
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Science Monitor • Southern Living Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ul... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079KV32KF
• ASIN: B079KV32KF
• Manufacturer: Random House

Leadership: In Turbulent Times

• ASIN: 1476795924
• ASIN: 1476795924
• ISBN: 1476795924
• Brand: SIMON AND SCHUSTER
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Master of the Senate : The Years of Lyndon Johnson III

Describes the future president's career in the U.S. Senate, from breaking the southern control of Capitol Hill to passing the first civil rights legislation since

• UPC: 2062622
• Rating: 4.714

Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism : A Brief Biography with Documents

9780312416331

• UPC: 3537023
• Rating: 4.0

The Path to Power : The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

Traces young Lyndon Johnson's rise from Texas poverty to political power, illuminating his political

• UPC: 380568
• Rating: 4.714

Means of Ascent : The Years of Lyndon Johnson II

The most important, acclaimed, and galvanizing political biography of our era--which began with The Path to Power--continues in this national bestseller. In Means of Ascent Lyndon Johnson's almost mythic personality is seen at its most

• UPC: 380440
• Rating: 4.313

The Passage of Power : The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV

The fourth volume in Caro's monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson follows Johnson through his volatile relationship with John and Robert Kennedy in the fight for the 1960 Democratic nomination for president and through Johnson's unhappy

• UPC: 21919787
• Rating: 4.813

The Path to Power : The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president--no era of American politics--has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold

• UPC: 25243948
• Rating: 4.714

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

Explores the thirty-sixth President's background, his personal outlook and behavior, his political career, and the political system that fostered his

• UPC: 479567
• Rating: 3.5

The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson - eBook

From Lyndon Johnson’s closest domestic adviser during the White House years comes a book in which “Johnson leaps out of the pages in all his raw and earthy glory” (The New York Times Book Review)

• UPC: 818257171
• Rating: 4.0

Andrew Johnson : A Biography

A definitive life of the flawed man who succeeded to the American presidency after Lincoln's assassination and who presided, disastrously, over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction. Historian Hans L. Trefousse gives us "a brilliant,

• UPC: 25674788
• Rating: 3.0

The Fierce Urgency of Now : Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society

"Zelizer takes the full measure of the entire story [of Johnson's liberal agenda] in all its epic sweep. Before Johnson, Kennedy tried and failed to achieve many of these advances. Our practiced understanding is that

• UPC: 45969965
• Rating: 5.0