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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1961-1973
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Texas in the Morning: The Love Story of Madeleine Brown and President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years
The Best and the Brightest
In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a purely constructive leadership project, and it is unlikely that there will ever be another president stretched so thinly by a determination to use great power to do just that. Lyndon Johnson was a full-service president who had at his disposal an alignment of political resources, economic resources, international resources, and military resources unmatched in the annals of presidential history. The pr ...more
Stephen Skowronek, The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton

Tim Weiner
From 1966 to 1976 ... The primary cause in [the] decline in FBI counterespionage and counterintelligence cases was the ceaseless demand by Presidents Johnson and Nixon to focus on the political warfare against the American left.... - "Espionage Against the United States by American Citizens, 1947-2001, Defense Personnel Security Research Center, July 2002 ...more
Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI

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