Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has
received an avalanche of praise. Now Dallek has condensed his two- volume
masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson
available.Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has
received an avalanche of praise. Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume
masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson
available. Based on years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and
oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this biography follows
Johnson, the 'human dynamo', from the Texas hill country to the White House. In
these pages, Johson emerges as a man of towering intensity and anguished
insecurity, of grandiose ambition and grave self-doubt, a man who was
brilliant, crude, intimidating, compassionate, overbearing, driven. Gracefully
written and delicately balanced, this singular biography reveals both the
greatness and the tangled complexities of one of the most extravagant
characters ever to step onto the presidential stage.
