LBJ : architect of American ambition / Randall B. Woods.
Woods, Randall Bennett, 1944-
2007
E847 .W73 2007 (Mapit)
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Title LBJ : architect of American ambition / Randall B. Woods.
Author Woods, Randall Bennett, 1944-
ISBN 9780674026995 (pbk.)
0674026993 (pbk.)
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Language English
Description viii, 1007 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number E847 .W73 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.923092
Note Originally published: New York: Free Press, 2006.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Prologue
1. Roots
2. Growing up
3. College
4. The secretary
5. Lady Bird and the NYA
6. Congress
7. Pappy
8. War
9. Truman and the coming of the cold war
10. Coke
11. A populist gentlemen's club
12. Leader
13. Passing the Lord's prayer
14. Back from the edge
15. Containing the red-hots : from Dulles to the Dixie Association
16. Lost in space
17. 1960
18. Camelot meets Mr. Cornpone
19. Hanging on
20. Interregnum : death and resurrection
21. "Kennedy was too conservative for me"
22. Free at last
23. Containment at home and abroad
24. "The countryside of the world"
25. Bobby
26. Barry
27. A new bill of rights
28. The crux of the matter
29. Daunted courage
30. Castro's and Kennedy's shadows
31. A city on the hill
32. Balancing act
33. Divisions
34. Civil war
35. Battling Dr. Strangelove
36. The holy land
37. Backlash
38. Of hawks and doves, vultures and chickens
39. Tet
40. A midsummer nightmare
41. Touching the void
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index.

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