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Lyndon Johnson and the American dream

Doris Kearns Goodwin

How did a boy who learned to earn love through achievement become the president who sought it from a whole nation?

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Author
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Why read it

  • You will see how a childhood pulled between two very different parents helped form Johnson's hunger for approval
  • You will understand why praise won for what you do can never stand in for love given for who you are
  • You will hear a president two days before his death say he should have sought love from family, not from a fickle public

Who it is for

  • A reader of political biography curious about what drives ambition
  • A person who ties self worth to achievements
  • A student of the Great Society and Vietnam era

Contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Chapter 1 / GROWING UP
  3. Chapter 2 / EDUCATION AND THE DREAM OF SUCCESS
  4. Chapter 3 / THE MAKING OF A POLITICIAN
  5. Chapter 4 / RISE TO POWER IN THE SENATE
  6. Chapter 5 / THE SENATE LEADER
  7. Chapter 6 / THE VICE-PRESIDENCY
  8. Chapter 7 / THE TRANSITION YEAR
  9. Chapter 8 / THE GREAT SOCIETY
  10. Chapter 9 / VIETNAM
  11. Chapter 10 / THINGS GO WRONG
  12. Chapter 11 / UNDER SIEGE IN THE WHITE HOUSE
  13. Chapter 12 / THE WITHDRAWAL
  14. Epilogue
  15. Author’s Postscript

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