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This "smartly written ... stunning" (The Boston Globe) portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, and ballast for her husband Lyndon offers "a penetrating analysis ... of a marriage that paired two complicated but devoted figures, a coupling that changed the face of America" (Richmond Times-Dispatch) .Marriage is the most underreported story in political life, yet it is often the key to its success. Historian Betty Boyd Caroli spent seven years exploring the archives of the LBJ Library, interviewing dozens of people, and mining never-before-released letters between Lady Bird and Lyndon. The result "redefines the First Lady as an iron fist in a white glove" (Vanity Fair) and helps explain how the talented, but flawed Lyndon Baines Johnson ended up making history.