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    Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
    Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
    Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
    Audiobook17 hours

    Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written

    Written by Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Narrated by Gabra Zackman and Jim Frangione

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    About this audiobook

    Doris Kearns Goodwin’s classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she became fascinated by the man—his character, his enormous energy and drive, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power. As a member of his White House staff, she soon became his personal confidante, and in the years before his death he revealed himself to her as he did to no other.

    Widely praised and enormously popular, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant, conflicted humanity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 18, 2016
    ISBN9781508217831
    Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
    Author

    Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian and author. She has written six critically acclaimed, New York Times–bestselling books, the most recent of which is The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to the book. Goodwin previously worked with Spielberg on the film Lincoln, based in part on her award-winning Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, for which Daniel Day-Lewis received an Academy Award for his portrayal of Lincoln. Goodwin earned the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. She also authored Wait Till Next Year, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, which was adapted into an award-winning TV miniseries. She is well known for her commentary and interviews on television and in documentaries, including Ken Burns’s Baseball and The Civil War. Goodwin served as an aide to President Lyndon Johnson in his last year in office and later assisted him in the preparation of his memoirs. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Richard N. Goodwin.

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    • 5/5
      The author portrays a person who overcame obstacles, became larger than life, had a major impact on our country’s history. But his accomplishments came at a huge cost, to himself and those around him. I appreciated the author’s fair, apolitical presentation.
    • 5/5
      Very detailed in the time frame of the country. I liked
    • 5/5
      Well researched, well written and well read. Truly insightful and worthwhile!