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Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"In the spring of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a decision to make. Just months after moving into the White House under the worst of circumstances--following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy--he had decide whether to run to win the presidency in his own right. He turned to his most reliable, trusted political strategist: his wife, Lady Bird Johnson. The memo she produced for him, long overlooked by biographers, is just one revealing...
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English
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"The true story of First Lady "Lady Bird" Johnson's historic 1964 Whistle-Stop train journey, making almost fifty stops through eight Southern states in four days to campaign on behalf of her husband's reelection in the wake of the signing of the Civil Rights Act"--
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English
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"Combining prodigious research with journalistic flair, Rick Perlstein. . .has produced a detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right ... It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice."--William Kristol, "The New York Times Book Review" "Daring, virtuosic writing, and encyclopedic mastery make ... [Before the Storm] one of the most stylish, riveting achievements in narrative history to appear in years...
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Publisher
Santa Monica Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Ray Elias is a precocious but withdrawn sixteen-year-old growing up in an affluent suburb of New York in the early sixties. Numbed by the assassination of President Kennedy, Ray chances upon a TV documentary about the most recent presidential election and is drawn to the ebullient senator from Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey, who unsuccessfully challenged John Kennedy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960. With the senator as his newfound...
6) Daisy petals and mushroom clouds: LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the ad that changed American politics
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Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Gain an in-depth look at the tumultuous presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968. Includes bonus films A Thousand Days: A Tribute to John F. Kennedy and The March of Time: Seven Days in the Life of the President; a viewer's guide; biographies; and more.
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