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Author
Series
Years of Lyndon Johnson volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines Lyndon Johnson's volatile relationships with John and Robert Kennedy, describes JFK's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint, and recounts his accomplishments as president before they were overshadowed by the Vietnam War.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1976.
Language
English
Description
Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War & other defining moments the tumultuous '60s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, 1st encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 67, she became fascinated by the man: his character, his enormous energy & drive, & his manner of wielding these gifts in an...
4) LBJ
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Go inside the Oval Office during the Civil Rights Movement to see the challenges faced by President Lyndon B. Johnson, how he responded to difficult issues, and how he shaped the country during this pressing time in office.
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission: to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence documents, the USS Pueblo was poorly armed and lacked backup by air or sea. Its crew, led by a charismatic, hard-drinking ex-submarine officer named Pete Bucher, was made up mostly of untested sailors in their teens and...
Publisher
Kultur International Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Paranoid and fearful of history's verdict, LBJ secretly placed a bugging device across his own line to leave a permanent record of his tumultuous years in power.
Hello, Mr. President: Johnson's first call as president was to Mrs. Rose Kennedy made from Air Force One on the flight back from Dallas with JFK's body. Mrs. Kennedy tells Johnson, I know you loved Jack and he loved you. In her first ever interview Marie Fehmer, Johnson's personal secretary,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely -- Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights) -- to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
LBJ's towering political skills and his ambitious slate of liberal legislation are the stuff of legend: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and environmental reform. But what happened after the bills passed? One man could not and did not go it alone. Joshua Zeitz reanimates the creative and contentious atmosphere inside Johnson's White House as a talented and energetic group of advisers made...
11) Path to war
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Begins immediately following his victorious election to the Presidency, Lyndon Johnson's dreams for "The Great Society" and his vision for civil rights in America was devastated by the impact of the Vietnamese War. A war he didn't start, but which he seemed unable to end. Torn between the recommendation of increased bombing to win and a nation torn apart by the deaths of young Americans overseas and the protest of those who stayed behind.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Documents the thirty-sixth president's decisions throughout the twenty-four hours following JFK's death, in a narrative account that draws on new archival sources to reveal how Johnson's choices negatively impacted his administration.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Shot on location in Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Moscow and Washington, and using newely declassified archives, home movie footage and personal photographs, evocative recreations, and dozens of interviews with participants, this film offers unprecedented insight into the story of the Six Day War. Examines how the war came about, how it was fought, and how it reshaped the regional political landscape.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Kerner Report is a powerful window into the roots of racism and inequality in the United States. Hailed by Martin Luther King Jr. as a "physician's warning of approaching death, with a prescription for life," this historic study was produced by a presidential commission established by Lyndon Johnson, chaired by former Illinois governor Otto Kerner, and provides a riveting account of the riots that shook 1960s America. The commission pointed to...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An accessible, informed, and timely biography of Lyndon Johnson that centers his life and presidency around the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Keenly known for both his triumphs and his failures, Lyndon B. Johnson was one of the most complex and compelling presidents in US history. Anne Quirk's biography alternates between chapters that follow LBJ's childhood in rural Texas learning politics from his parents, his time teaching Mexican American...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, published in 1962, depicted how detrimental DDT was to living creatures; its publication launched an ecological revolution. Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism from 1960 to 1973. In doing so, he tells the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. While the world still grapples with climate change...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In politics, the man who takes the highest spot after a landslide is not standing on solid ground.
In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how, from 1963 to 1966, these two men—the same age, and driven by the same heroic ambitions—changed American politics forever.
The...
In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how, from 1963 to 1966, these two men—the same age, and driven by the same heroic ambitions—changed American politics forever.
The...
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