Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait Of A President - Couverture souple

Dallek, Emeritus Professor Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195159217 ISBN 13 : 9780195159219

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Dallek Robert

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0195159217
• ISBN 13: 9780195159219
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 396