Lyndon

by Richard Harwood, Haynes Johnson

“Lyndon Johnson, that dominant, flawed, forceful figure who came to presidential power on a clap of thunder and a beat of drums, all his life aroused strong emotion and controversy. When he left office quietly, discredited, disliked, and disparaged, he retired to his ranch to await a more compassionate judgement.”
In this book Washington Post writers Harwood and Johnson offer that judgment. Their Lyndon is the first full account published since his death of a Texas boy on the make, of a free-wheeling Senator, of a President at the peak of triumph and in the pit of tragedy, of a rejected leader laboring to explain his record—and to exhort blacks and whites once more to reason together.

187 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Richard Lee Harwood was an American journalist, editor and the World War II veteran.

Source:
The Washington Post obituary

Reviews

[Joel Manuel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A brief, fairly objective look at the years of the Johnson presidency by the Washington Post.