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    <body><![CDATA[Finally finished with this 1,000 page sucker. Lyndon Johnson was president for 5 years and 59 days, but it seemed twice as long because of his 18 hour days.  I was partly greatly impressed with Dallek's work and partly miffed because while great, he writes in a non-linear fashion, by subject rather ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67520343">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a good book if you don't know much about Johnson but I'm not sure it wasn't written with some bias.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book protryed him better than i had heard about his presidency.]]></body>
    
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