Jfk and Lbj: The Influence Of Personality Upon Politics - Couverture souple

Wicker, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0929587596 ISBN 13 : 9780929587592

Editeur : Ivan R. Dee, 1991

Synopsis

In JFK and LBJ one of our most astute political observers examines two important events of the 1960s: why John F. Kennedy, the popular president, failed to push his legislative program through Congress, and why Lyndon B. Johnson, the consummate domestic politician, squandered his great consensus in an unpopular war in Vietnam. Tom Wickers theme is that personality and circumstance dominate political life–that government consists chiefly of not measures but men. Mr. Wickers detailed and absorbing account, much of it going behind the scenes, shows how Kennedys brilliant campaign of 1960 made all but certain his deadlock with Congress, and how Johnson came to his most fateful decision within forty-eight hours of assuming the presidency.
It is difficult in short space to do justice to the subtlety, the human and political insight, of this double portrait in presidential frustration.... Wicker has found in these two presidents who longed to acquit themselves well before history embodiments of the limits of the presidency.—Edwin M. Yoder, Book World.
Steadily persuasive ... wonderfully astute and incomparably lucid.—Newsweek.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

For over thirty years, Tom Wicker covered American politics at The New York Times, where he began writing the Times's "In the Nation" column. He was the author of several books, including One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream and JFK & LBJ, as well as two novels.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ivan R. Dee
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0929587596
• ISBN 13: 9780929587592
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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