LBJ: architect of American ambition
Randall B. Woods
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Cambridge, MA ; London : Harvard University Press, 2007
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- Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- 1. Roots
- 2. Growing up
- 3. College
- 4. The secretary
- 5. Lady Bird and the NYA
- 6. Congress
- 7. Pappy
- 8. War
- 9. Truman and the coming of the cold war
- 10. Coke
- 11. A populist gentlemen's club
- 12. Leader
- 13. Passing the Lord's prayer
- 14. Back from the edge
- 15. Containing the red-hots : from Dulles to the Dixie Association
- 16. Lost in space
- 17. 1960
- 18. Camelot meets Mr. Cornpone
- 19. Hanging on
- 20. Interregnum : death and resurrection
- 21. "Kennedy was too conservative for me"
- 22. Free at last
- 23. Containment at home and abroad
- 24. "The countryside of the world"
- 25. Bobby
- 26. Barry
- 27. A new bill of rights
- 28. The crux of the matter
- 29. Daunted courage
- 30. Castro's and Kennedy's shadows
- 31. A city on the hill
- 32. Balancing act
- 33. Divisions
- 34. Civil war
- 35. Battling Dr. Strangelove
- 36. The holy land
- 37. Backlash
- 38. Of hawks and doves, vultures and chickens
- 39. Tet
- 40. A midsummer nightmare
- 41. Touching the void
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
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- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- Originally published: New York ; London: Free, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Physical Description:
- viii, 1007 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Call Numbers:
- E847 .W73 2007
- ISBNs:
- 9780674026995 (pbk.)
0674026993 (pbk.) - OCLC Numbers:
- 165408359