Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
Written by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by Gabra Zackman and Jim Frangione
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Widely praised and enormously popular, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant, conflicted humanity.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian and author. She has written six critically acclaimed, New York Times–bestselling books, the most recent of which is The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to the book. Goodwin previously worked with Spielberg on the film Lincoln, based in part on her award-winning Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, for which Daniel Day-Lewis received an Academy Award for his portrayal of Lincoln. Goodwin earned the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. She also authored Wait Till Next Year, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, which was adapted into an award-winning TV miniseries. She is well known for her commentary and interviews on television and in documentaries, including Ken Burns’s Baseball and The Civil War. Goodwin served as an aide to President Lyndon Johnson in his last year in office and later assisted him in the preparation of his memoirs. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Richard N. Goodwin.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The author portrays a person who overcame obstacles, became larger than life, had a major impact on our country’s history. But his accomplishments came at a huge cost, to himself and those around him. I appreciated the author’s fair, apolitical presentation.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very detailed in the time frame of the country. I liked
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well researched, well written and well read. Truly insightful and worthwhile!