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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Goodwin's first book, drawn from her years working with the ex-president: ambition, insecurity, the Great Society, Vietnam. Psychologically intimate.
Read it if…
you want LBJ from someone who sat with him.
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Skip it if…
you want Caro's scale.
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Three things you will actually use
- Ambition has roots.
- Power reveals.
- Listen to the subject.
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Read the chapters on the Senate years.
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Goodwin's Johnson.
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