Best lyndon johnson biography

By , LBJ felt politically prepared to run for president. However, the Democratic convention nominated medlem av senat John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who received votes over LBJ's Kennedy then asked LBJ to be his vice-presidential running mate, a strategic move to garner support in the South. Kennedy and LBJ defeated the Richard Nixon-Henry Cabot stuga, Jr. GOP ticket in one of the closest elections in American history.

As vice president and chairman of the Space Council, LBJ headed up the US space program. Just days after the Soviet Union launched the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space on April 12, , President Kennedy assigned Vice President Johnson to investigate the US space program's potential. LBJ, working with NASA's famed rocket architect Wernher von Braun, reported that with an "all-out crash program," amerika could get to the moon bygd or One month later, on May 25, , Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress to announce the goal of putting an American

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Anonymous asked:

best lbj book recommendation?? preferably not too heavy on policy and more so on his character.

While Roberto Caro’s four-volume (so far) biography is undoubtedly the gold standard for learning about LBJ’s life and career, it seems like you’re looking for something that doesn’t average 1, pages per book, which is understandable.

Fortunately, there is a perfect book for what it seems like you’re most interested in. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) is one of the best biographies ever written about a President. It’s an astonishingly revealing look at who LBJ was as a human being – deeply personal and endlessly fascinating. Goodwin spent part of LBJ’s post-Presidency helping him prepare his memoirs – The Vantage Point: Perspectives on the Presidency, – and found herself frustrated because LBJ was so obsessed with coming across as “Pre

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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies

After spending the past four months with Lyndon Johnson it&#;s fair to say that I found him to be the most interesting (and confounding) president since at least FDR&#;and perhaps ever.

Together, the nine biographies I read (including a four-volume series by Robert Caro, a two-volume series by Robert Dallek and Dallek&#;s series abridgment) reveal a fascinatingly complex man who was indefatigable, ambitious, ruthless, generous, conniving, sympathetic and incredibly manipulative.

With a heritage almost as modest as Abraham Lincoln&#;s and an adolescence shaped by World War I, the Great Depression and the unforgiving Texas Hill Country, Johnson was always a man on the move &#; a man perpetually running from something as well as for something.

His rise from congressional aide to President of the United States is a case study in making your own luck (and, when necessary, stealing some).  But his presidential experience wit