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LBJ : architect of American ambition / Randall B. Woods.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Free Press, c2006.Description: x, 1007 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0684834588
  • 9780684834580
Other title:
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E847 .W73 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Roots -- Growing up -- College -- The secretary -- Lady Bird and the NYA -- Congress -- Pappy -- War -- Truman and the coming of the cold war -- Coke -- A populist gentlemen's club -- Leader -- Passing the Lord's prayer -- Back from the edge -- Containing the red-hots: from Dulles to the Dixie Association -- Lost in space -- 1960 -- Camelot meets Mr. Cornpone -- Hanging on -- Interregnum: death and resurrection -- "Kennedy was too conservative for me" -- Free at last -- Containment at home and abroad -- "The countryside of the world" -- Bobby -- Barry -- A new bill of rights -- The crux of the matter -- Daunted courage -- Castro's and Kennedy's shadows -- A city on the hill -- Balancing act -- Divisions -- Civil war -- Battling Dr. Strangelove -- The holy land -- Backlash -- Of hawks and doves, vultures and chickens -- Tet -- A midsummer nightmare -- Touching the void.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Circulating Book Collection Circulating Book Collection Albright College Library Stacks General collection 973.923 W696L 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 31856002185633
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Roots -- Growing up -- College -- The secretary -- Lady Bird and the NYA -- Congress -- Pappy -- War -- Truman and the coming of the cold war -- Coke -- A populist gentlemen's club -- Leader -- Passing the Lord's prayer -- Back from the edge -- Containing the red-hots: from Dulles to the Dixie Association -- Lost in space -- 1960 -- Camelot meets Mr. Cornpone -- Hanging on -- Interregnum: death and resurrection -- "Kennedy was too conservative for me" -- Free at last -- Containment at home and abroad -- "The countryside of the world" -- Bobby -- Barry -- A new bill of rights -- The crux of the matter -- Daunted courage -- Castro's and Kennedy's shadows -- A city on the hill -- Balancing act -- Divisions -- Civil war -- Battling Dr. Strangelove -- The holy land -- Backlash -- Of hawks and doves, vultures and chickens -- Tet -- A midsummer nightmare -- Touching the void.

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