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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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.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s work for President Johnson inspired her career as a presidential historian. Her first book was Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize–winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II. She earned the Lincoln Prize for Team of Rivals, in part the basis for Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, about the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Her bestselling Leadership: In Turbulent Times was the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced. Her most recent book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, provides a front-row seat to the pivotal people—JFK, LBJ, RFK and MLK—and events of this momentous decade.
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Reviews for Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very detailed in the time frame of the country. I liked
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well researched, well written and well read. Truly insightful and worthwhile!