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Books : Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
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: Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
See Larger Image 		Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.9230924
EAN: 9780060122843
ISBN: 0060122846
Label: Harper & Row
Manufacturer: Harper & Row
Publication Date: 1976
Publisher: Harper & Row
Sales Rank: 270012
Studio: Harper & Row



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Good non-fiction book, okay biography
LBJ and The American Dream is really not to be compared with other LBJ bios. While Dalleck and Caro described LBJ's early years through his Congressional service in one and two volumes respectively, Kearns summarized his entire pre-presidential career in a little over one hundred pages. While her one volume tried to span his entire life like Unger's, it left out some very important milestones.

Kearns was too close to LBJ, both in terms of her personal contact and in terms of her historical perspective, for a true bio (note I had the 70s edition and there is a second 1991 edition). Although she dutifully recorded his thoughts and reminiscing of his career, and while in many cases, she corroborated his words with evidence, she seemed to introduce little other third party data from any research she might have done. And despite the coverage of the presidential years, she uncovers little about his relationship ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - LBJ was, or tried to be, a good compassionate man. But not
always. Doris Kearns does a find job exploring the psyche of this most complex, conflicted man. She had a unique opportunity, spending unlimited time with LBJ at his ranch after he had retired from public life. She is in fact his very personal
biographer, this being a task he didn't want to do himself.
There is great reliance on his dreams & the interpertation of what they mean. The answers are simple & so pat that it is doubtful they were dreams at all but merely a vehicle for LBJ to explain his actions .
To her credit Ms. Kearns does not dwell on Vietnam. Important to be sure but this was a whole life biography & she did cover the war adequately.
Cultivation of mentors was a method used by LBJ throughout his life to better himself & led to his sucesses. However, by the time he became vice president he was own his own, isolated for maybe the first time in his life.
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