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Lyndon B. Johnson : portrait of a president

Dallek, Robert2005
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Based on years of research in over 450 manuscript collections, oral histories and numerous personal interviews, this biography follows Johnson from the Texas hill country to the White House. Johnson emerges as a man of towering intensity and anguished insecurity, brilliant, crude, intimidating, compassionate and driven.
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Edition:
[Abridged ed.].
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2005.
Collation:
x, 396 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This work is a one volume abridgement of Lone star rising (1991) and Flawed giant (1998)This ed. originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141019659 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
228228
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