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Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973)

Author of The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969

69+ Works 766 Members 5 Reviews 1 Favorited

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Image credit: Arnold Newman, White House Press Office (WHPO); 10 March 1964

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Works by Lyndon B. Johnson

Quotations from Chairman LBJ (1968) 81 copies, 1 review
The Choices We Face (1969) 40 copies, 1 review
My hope for America (1964) 25 copies, 1 review
This America (1966) 20 copies
A Time for Action (1964) 18 copies
The Johnson humor (1965) 4 copies
The Johnson wit 2 copies
Ma vie de président, 1963-1969 (1972) — Author — 1 copy
2063 A.D. — Contributor — 1 copy

Associated Works

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Contributor — 454 copies, 1 review
The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense (1965) — Foreword — 241 copies, 1 review
The burden and the glory (1964) — Foreword, some editions — 123 copies, 1 review
American Heritage: A Reader (2011) — Contributor — 103 copies
Forever Texas: Texas, The Way Those Who Lived It Wrote It (2000) — Contributor — 44 copies
American heritage new pictorial encyclopedic guide to the United States (1965) — Foreword, some editions — 14 copies

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6 reviews
A parody on the then-ubiquitous little red book of Chairman Mao's quotations. It's actually a bit surprising that most of the quotations here are so tame and mundane. LBJ was known as a blunt cuss who wouldn't hesitate to ream out somebody's ass when needed (or even not needed). There are a few quotes that are interesting, funny, or somehow typical of LBJ's blunt crudity. It may be a sign of the times that this book is as bland as it mostly is. Or it may be that Simon and Schuster didn't show more have the balls to venture into the realms of political humor and dissent being so successfully mined by the less-mainstream publishers. show less
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This book was published privately but consists largely of the public papers of Johnson giving his views and intent on the war on poverty. In the introduction the editor explains that Johnson had just turned down the chance to run for another term. There is tragedy in this book in that Vietnam partially destroyed this legacy, and poverty is not only with us today but is worse. But how much worse would it be if it had not been for Johnson's work. An important compilation.

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