Flawed Giant: Lyndon B. Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973 by Dallek, Robert
Flawed Giant: Lyndon B. Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973 by Dallek, Robert
Hardcover, ISBN 9780195054651
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1998.
Used - Very Good. Hardcover. Small quarto, hardcover, VG black and white pictorial dj covered in Mylar. 754 pages, with photographs. Ex Library book with minimal stamps and pastings and acceptable handling wear.
A lucid, well-written, and judicious study of LBJ's days of power broker and president. A monumental Washington saga told by one of America's great historians.
Flawed Giant--the monumental concluding volume to Robert Dallek's biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson--provides the most through, engrossing account ever published of Johnson's years in the national spotlight. Drawing on hours of newly released White House tapes and dozens of interviews with people close to the President, Dallek reveals LBJ as a visionary leader who worked his will on Congress like no chief executive before or since, and also displays the depth of his private anguish as he became increasingly ensnared in Vietnam. Writing in a clear, thoughtful, and evenhanded style, Dallek reveals both the greatness and the tangled complexities of one of the most extravagant characters ever to ascend to the White House.
