Ebook {Epub PDF} Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President by Robert Dallek

Reviewed in the United States on . Verified Purchase. This is Robert Dallek’s conclusion about Lyndon Johnson as president. Johnson is easy to admire in some ways and easy to dislike (intensely) in others but, as Dallek says, he will never be one of the blank faces in the history of the American presidency/5(). In Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President, he writes of a president trying to sustain a war in a far-off place, a war that is growing progressively unwinnable and unpopular, a war the flimsy legal authority for which rests on a congressional resolution that the public has come to understand was exaggerated at best, trumped up at worst. This biography is bltadwin.ru: Robert Dallek. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President. Oxford University Press, Nov , , pp. ISBN: Professor provides an incredible biography of one of the most complex presidents of the twentieth century, LBJ. Readers obtain insight into a compassionate yet deceitful individual who believed in his populist social reforms; Professor Dallek believes LBJ was .

Lyndon B. Johnson. Portrait of a President. Robert Dallek. Publication Date - March ISBN: pages Paperback /16 x /16 inches In Stock. Retail Price to Students: $ A superb one-volume, abridged edition of a critically acclaimed two-volume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President by Robert Dallek starting at $ Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President has 3 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. Read "Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President Portrait of a President" by Robert Dallek available from Rakuten Kobo. Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael Beschloss.

This work is a one volume abridgment of Dallek's 2-volume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson v. 1. Lone star rising (); v. 2, Flawed giant (). The man certainly had his faults, but in this biography, Robert Dallek shows some surprising sides to LBJ. The author paints a portrait of him as a man of deep convictions, but also very pragmatic. Dallek shows Johnson as a man with long-term targets, but also an ability to compromise and seek common ground. In Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President, he writes of a president trying to sustain a war in a far-off place, a war that is growing progressively unwinnable and unpopular, a war the flimsy legal authority for which rests on a congressional resolution that the public has come to understand was exaggerated at best, trumped up at worst. This biography is timely.