Lyndon B. Johnson : portrait of a president /
Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael Beschloss, in The Los Angeles Times, said that it ""succeeds brilliantly."" The New York Times called it ""rock solid"" and The Washington Post h...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, England ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael Beschloss, in The Los Angeles Times, said that it ""succeeds brilliantly."" The New York Times called it ""rock solid"" and The Washington Post hailed it as ""invaluable."" And Sidney Blumenthal in The Boston Globe wrote that it was ""dense with astonishing incidents."" Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available. Based on years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as w |
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Notas: | This work is a one volume abridgment of Dallek's 2-volume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson v. 1. Lone star rising (1991); v. 2, Flawed giant (1998). |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 396 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-381) and index. |
ISBN: | 0195184106 9780195184105 9780195159202 0195159209 1280502967 9781280502965 9780199728596 0199728593 |