Product Description

Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. 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 personal interviews, this biography follows Johnson, the 'human dynamo', from the Texas hill country to the White House. In these pages, Johson emerges as a man of towering intensity and anguished insecurity, of grandiose ambition and grave self-doubt, a man who was brilliant, crude, intimidating, compassionate, overbearing, driven. Gracefully written and delicately balanced, this singular biography reveals both the greatness and the tangled complexities of one of the most extravagant characters ever to step onto the presidential stage.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25735 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

About the Author
Robert Dallek has taught at Columbia, UCLA, and Oxford. He is currently a professor of history at Boston University. He is the author of several books, including his classic two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, Lone Star Rising and Flawed Giant and the international bestseller John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, 1917-1963.

Customer Reviews

The best account of LBJ
LBJ's presidency should be remembered for the Civil Rights act and various other reforming pieces of legislation - sadly, its mostly remembered for "Hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today" due to the Vietnam War. Dallek presents the man as he was, of great aspirational attributes and terrible character flaws. Excellent.