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Lone Star Rising : Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1, Hardcover by Dallek, Robert, ISBN 0195054350, ISBN-13 9780195054354, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Discusses the contradictions of Johnson's early life and career, including his years as congressman, senator, and majority leader

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Like other great figures of 20th-century American politics, Lyndon Johnson defies easy understanding. An unrivaled master of vote swapping, back room deals, and election-day skulduggery, he was nevertheless an outspoken New Dealer with a genuine commitment to the poor and the underprivileged. With aides and colleagues he could be overbearing, crude, and vindictive, but at other times shy, sophisticated, and magnanimous. Perhaps columnist Russell Baker said it best: Johnson "was a character out of a Russian novel...a storm of warring human instincts: sinner and saint, buffoon and statesman, cynic and sentimentalist." But Johnson was also a representative figure. His career speaks volumes about American politics, foreign policy, and business in the forty years after 1930. As Charles de Gaulle said when he came to JFK's funeral: Kennedy was America's mask, but this man Johnson is the country's real face. In Lone Star Rising , Robert Dallek, winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his study of Franklin D. Roosevelt, now turns to this fascinating "sinner and saint" to offer a brilliant, definitive portrait of a great American politician. Based on seven years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this first book in a two-volume biography follows Johnson's life from his childhood on the banks of the Pedernales to his election as vice-president under Kennedy. We see Johnson, the twenty-three-year-old aide to a pampered millionaire Representative, become a de facto Congressman, and at age twenty-eight the country's best state director of the National Youth Administration. We see Johnson, the "human dynamo," first in the House and then in the Senate, whirl his way through sixteen- and eighteen-hour days, talking, urging, demanding, reaching for influence and power, in an uncommonly successful congressional career. Dallek pays full due to Johnson's failings--his obsession with being top dog, his willingness to cut corners, and worse, to get there-- but he also illuminates Johnson's sheer brilliance as a politician, the high regard in which key members of the New Deal, including FDR, held him, and his genuine concern for minorities and the downtrodden. No president in American history is currently less admired than Lyndon Johnson. Bitter memories of Vietnam have sent Johnson's reputation into free fall, and recent biographies have painted him as a scoundrel who did more harm than good. Lone Star Rising attempts to strike a balance. It does not neglect the tawdry side of Johnson's political career, including much that is revealed for the first time. But it also reminds us that Lyndon Johnson was a man of exceptional vision, who from early in his career worked to bring the South into the mainstream of American economic and political life, to give the disadvantaged a decent chance, and to end racial segregation for the well-being of the nation.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195054350
ISBN-13
9780195054354
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Lone Star Rising : Vol. 1: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960
Author
Robert Dallek
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Presidents & Heads of State
Publication Year
1991
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
752 Pages

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Item Length
6.5in
Item Height
2.2in
Item Width
9.6in
Item Weight
44.6 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
E847.D25 1991
Volume Number
Vol. 1
Reviews
"A triumphant portrait of Lyndon Johnson as rich and oversized and complexas the nation that shaped him. It should stand for years to come as the mostrounded portrait we have of this compelling, formidable, flawed giant. This isbiography in the grand style."--Doris Kearns Goodwin. "Dallek offers a morefocused, balanced, and traditional view of Johnson [than Caro], and his work mayemerge as the standard LBJ biography....His work is the product of seven yearsof careful research, and the concluding volume will be eagerlyawaited."--Library Journal., "A triumphant portrait of Lyndon Johnson as rich and oversized and complex as the nation that shaped him. It should stand for years to come as the most rounded portrait we have of this compelling, formidable, flawed giant. This is biography in the grand style."--Doris Kearns Goodwin. "Dallekoffers a more focused, balanced, and traditional view of Johnson [than Caro], and his work may emerge as the standard LBJ biography....His work is the product of seven years of careful research, and the concluding volume will be eagerly awaited."--Library Journal., 'assimilates a huge mass of conflicting evidence on a large, controversial topic and writes a dispassionate history that makes sense of it without oversimplification or overgeneralization ... succeeds brilliantly ... should stand for a long time as the best scholarly life of Lyndon Johnson'LA Times'Robert Dallek has now written the first volume of a scrupulously fair biography...LBJ was a distinctly unlovable scoundrel: he was needy, self-pitying, a bully, a mama's boy and a narcissist...He was also the man who did incomparably more to secure racial and social justice than any other American president. Dallek is as interested in the latter creature as in the former; it is a sad fact that this nowadays seems almost an antiquarian taste.Fredric Paul Smoler, The Observer'In this first volume of what promises to be a magisterial two-part work, Robert Dallek once again emerges firmly on the defence side of the argument.'Anthony Howard, Sunday Times'I know of few books which bring you closer to the nuts and bolts of American politics.Paul Johnson, Sunday Telegraph'a meticulous researcher and equally good historian ... Dallek gets pretty close to a plausible analysis of the many contradictions in this most complex of politicians'Jurek Martin, Financial Times'a striking example of devolutionary policy ... the sense of fairness is pervasive ... There is no concealment of the daemonic polecat aspects of Johnson.'Roy Jenkins, The Spectator'a splendid first instalment of a two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson ... It is a true scholarly work, based not only on an enviable mastery of primary and secondary published sources, but also on careful research in over a hundred manuscript collections and imaginative use of over 250 oral histories and interviews. Further, it is written in a crisp and compelling style which makes it a pleasure to read ... the authoritative academic study.'M.J. Heale, Lancaster University, American Studies, Vol. 26, Pt. 2
Copyright Date
1991
Lccn
90-039830
Intended Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes

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