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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as "one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro From Powells.com "The main emotion that the reader, or at least one reader, comes away with is anger: anger at a government that for so long could tolerate a body of leaders who succeeded at stalling the cause of reform in this country, and anger at a citizenry that also... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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Years of Lyndon Johnson : Means of Ascent (90 Edition) by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues -- one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency by Mark Updegrove Publisher Comments Nearly fifty years after being sworn in as president of the United States in the wake of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson remains a largely misunderstood figure. His force of personality, mastery of power and the... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A Caro Publisher Comments This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson by Jan Jarboe Russell Book News Annotation Russell, a contributing editor at , reveals Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson as a figure of surprising influence and the centering force for former president Lyndon Johnson. She draws on conversations and interviews with the former First Lady and with key... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes 1963 1964 by Michael R Beschloss Publisher Comments Lyndon Johnson's secretly recorded tapes offer us the only chance we are ever likely to have to eavesdrop on an American President from his first moments in office until the end. This universally acclaimed volume captures LBJ's private passions and... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement: Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965-1968 by David C Carter Publisher Comments After the passage of sweeping civil rights and voting rights legislation in 1964 and 1965, the civil rights movement stood poised to build on considerable momentum. In a famous speech at Howard University in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson's Final Days in Office by Horace Busby Publisher Comments An intimate, compulsively readable memoir by LBJ's closest aide and chief speechwriter. "I have made up my mind. I can't get peace in Vietnam and be President too." So begins this posthumously discovered account of Lyndon Johnson's final days in office... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960 by Robert Dallek Publisher Comments Like other great figures of 20th-century American politics, Lyndon Johnson defies easy understanding. An unrivaled master of vote swapping, back room deals, and election-day skulduggery, he was nevertheless an outspoken New Dealer with a genuine... (read more) List Price $119.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Kennedy Assassination - 24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President by Steven M Gillon Publisher Comments On November 22, 1963, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson faced one of the most painful and tragic events in American history—the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In that moment of chaos, with a nation in shock, Johnson became president. From the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series in the Presidency and Learning Studies #8: The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years by Joseph A Califano Synopsis In this classic portrait of LBJ, Joseph A. Califano reveals the giant at close hand. Califano captures his mentor's lively, irascible spirit as he puts us in the White House alongside LBJ during the trauma of the Vietnam War and the creation of the Great... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lyndon B. Johnson and the Transformation of American Politics (Library of American Biography Series) (Library of American Biography) by John L Bullion Publisher Comments This newest edition to the Library of American Biography Series by John L. Bullion introduces students to the dynamic and turbulent life and legacy of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson navigated the country through some of the most... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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LBJ: A Life by Irwin Unger Publisher Comments A New One-Volume Biography of a Larger-Than-Life American Leader For the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Irwin Unger and author Debi Unger explore the enigmatic and complex figure of Lyndon B. Johnson as both a public and personal figure—... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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LBJ: Architect of American Ambition by Randall Woods Publisher Comments This dramatic reappraisal of one of the most significant and least understood presidents in American history is based on extraordinary interviews and documents, revealing a Lyndon Baines Johnson as never seen before.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965 by Michael R. Beschloss Publisher Comments Beschloss has transcribed and selected the most stunning moments from hundreds of hours of newly-released LBJ tapes to give us - with commentary and historical context - treasures of permanent interest to historians and readers.The book exposes the inner... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 by Michael R Beschloss Publisher Comments An indispensable window on one of the most legendary figures in American politics and his tumultuous, controversial years in power, edited, set in context, and annotated by America's leading presidential historian. Because Lyndon Johnson was the only... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $2.25 Used - Hardcover
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Oklahoma Western Biography #25: Lyndon B. Johnson and Modern America by Kevin J Fernlund Publisher Comments Born in a farmhouse in the Texas Hill Country, Lyndon Baines Johnson brought a western sensibility to the White House. Building on recent studies that have delved into Johnsons Texas roots, Kevin J. Fernlund has written a brief, lively biography of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Lyndon Baines Johnson by Randall Bennett Woods Publisher Comments Draws on White House records, declassified documents, and personal interviews to explore the thirty-sixth president's personal and political lives, offering insight into his struggles with borderline bipolar disorder, the legacy of his reform movements... (read more) Your price: $15.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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