Life of Johnson, Book IV Volume 1 of 2 (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published:
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1427056617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published:
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1427056617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published:
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 1427056625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published:
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1427056315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published:
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published:
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 1427056242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert A. Caro
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 0307960463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE 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 masterpiece.” The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark. By 1958, as Johnson began to maneuver for the presidency, he was known as one of the most brilliant politicians of his time, the greatest Senate Leader in our history. But the 1960 nomination would go to the young senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy. Caro gives us an unparalleled account of the machinations behind both the nomination and Kennedy’s decision to offer Johnson the vice presidency, revealing the extent of Robert Kennedy’s efforts to force Johnson off the ticket. With the consummate skill of a master storyteller, he exposes the savage animosity between Johnson and Kennedy’s younger brother, portraying one of America’s great political feuds. Yet Robert Kennedy’s overt contempt for Johnson was only part of the burden of humiliation and isolation he bore as Vice President. With a singular understanding of Johnson’s heart and mind, Caro describes what it was like for this mighty politician to find himself altogether powerless in a world in which power is the crucial commodity. For the first time, in Caro’s breathtakingly vivid narrative, we see the Kennedy assassination through Lyndon Johnson’s eyes. We watch Johnson step into the presidency, inheriting a staff fiercely loyal to his slain predecessor; a Congress determined to retain its power over the executive branch; and a nation in shock and mourning. We see how within weeks—grasping the reins of the presidency with supreme mastery—he propels through Congress essential legislation that at the time of Kennedy’s death seemed hopelessly logjammed and seizes on a dormant Kennedy program to create the revolutionary War on Poverty. Caro makes clear how the political genius with which Johnson had ruled the Senate now enabled him to make the presidency wholly his own. This was without doubt Johnson’s finest hour, before his aspirations and accomplishments were overshadowed and eroded by the trap of Vietnam. In its exploration of this pivotal period in Johnson’s life—and in the life of the nation—The Passage of Power is not only the story of how he surmounted unprecedented obstacles in order to fulfill the highest purpose of the presidency but is, as well, a revelation of both the pragmatic potential in the presidency and what can be accomplished when the chief executive has the vision and determination to move beyond the pragmatic and initiate programs designed to transform a nation. It is an epic story told with a depth of detail possible only through the peerless research that forms the foundation of Robert Caro’s work, confirming Nicholas von Hoffman’s verdict that “Caro has changed the art of political biography.”
Author: Devika Jina
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2019-06-06
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0241375452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1969 history was made when the first humans stepped on the moon. Back on earth, one woman was running the numbers that ensured they got there and back in one piece. As a child, Katherine Johnson loved maths. She went on to be one of the most important people in the history of space travel. Discover her incredible life story in this beautifully illustrated book complete with narrative biography, timelines and facts.
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 3734093511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: Life of Johnson by James Boswell
Author: Hans Louis Trefousse
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780945707226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA definitive life of the flawed man who succeeded to the American presidency after Lincoln's assassination and who presided, disastrously, over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction. Historian Hans L. Trefousse gives us "a brilliant, compassionate portrait of a dynamic era of social change and national healing, and of the tragic failure of an American leader" (LIBRARY JOURNAL). Photos.
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published:
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 1427063060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK