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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone with questions regarding the character, mind, mindsets, motives of Lyndon Johnson should find answers in this awesome and baffling book.  Correction - it is not the book that is baffling. Not at all. It is the subject, Lyndon Baines Johnson. While she still was Doris Kearns, this extraordinar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74090695">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first book Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote, and you can tell.  It reads a little bit like a college thesis.  The attempts at psychoanalysis and the comparisons to Machiavelli kinda got on my nerves and got in the way of the storytelling for me.<br/><br/>She worked with LBJ in the later yea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39830244">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed with this book. Contrasting this work with the Michael Caro books, she does not go into great depth of the forces surrounding Johnson and the men who helped shaped his life an views.   Dois Kearns had unprecedented access to him as a former aide.  Where Michael Caro ends with Lynd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45978167">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting read, especially the earliest stuff about Johnson's ridiculous energy and ambition, and the latest stuff about Vietnam. The Vietnam stuff just becomes depressing, because Johnson was doing so many good things domestically, and he just couldn't shake this awful war that kept getting wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17172323">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A tremendously interesting personal portrait of someone who to me was a distant and not-very sympathetic figure. I learned much about his skill at negotiation, his success with the Civil Rights Act of 1967, the inevitable tragedies presaged by his focus on his public persona - learned much more to r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50754045">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Doris Kearns first mojor biography of an American president.  Good insight into the history and complex personality of Lyndon Johnson, both as a congressman, senator and eventually as president.  Classic description of politics at its most down and dirty.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read as part of a book club. Doris Kearns Goodwin has a way of writing about history and presidents in which she keeps everything very interesting.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A study of leadership rather than a chronology of events.  Fascinating look at the obtainment and use of power.]]></body>
    
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