Author
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Call Number:
973.923 CAR
Publication Date
2015
Summary:
A fresh look at Lady Bird Johnson that upends her image as a plain Jane who was married for her money and mistreated by Lyndon. This Lady Bird worked quietly behind the scenes through every campaign, every illness, and a trying presidency as a key strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, peacemaker, and indispensable therapist. Lady Bird grew up the daughter of a domineering father and a cultured but fragile mother. When a tall, pushy Texan named Lyndon showed up in her life, she knew what she wanted: to leave the rural Texas of her childhood and experience the world like her mother dreamed, while climbing the mountain of ambition she inherited from her father. She married Lyndon within weeks, and the bargain they struck was tacitly agreed upon in the courtship letters they exchanged: this highly gifted politician would take her away, and she would save him from his weaknesses.
Format
Audio disc
ISBN
9781442397408
Author
Call Number:
B JOH C
Publication Date
2015
Summary:
"Marriage is the most underreported story in political life and yet is often the key to its success. This is the idea driving a revealing new portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, peacemaker, and ballast for Lyndon...[A] biography of a political partnership that helps explain how the wildly talented but deeply flawed Lyndon Baines Johnson ended up making history..."--P. [2] of jacket.
Format
Books
ISBN
9781439191224 9781439191231
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Betty Boyd Caroli
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eAudiobook
Electronic Format:
HOOPLA AUDIO BOOK
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hoopla
by
Caroli, Betty, Carlin, Amanda (NAR)
Format:
eAudiobook
Electronic Format:
BOUNDLESS EAUDIOBOOK
Vendor
Baker and Taylor
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