PRESIDENTIAL SERIES: BIBLIOGRAPHY - LANDSLIDE (SPOILER THREAD)

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*********************SPOILER THREAD*********************

This thread is a "spoiler thread" and is a bibliography thread which identifies many of the books which were referenced or used as primary documents or are relevant to the subject matter of the book: LANDSLIDE: LYNDON JOHNSON, RONALD REAGAN AT THE DAWN OF A NEW AMERICA by Jonathan Darman.

Please feel free to add properly cited books (book covers, author's photo, and author's links). Add a review or a few words why this book is important to the subject matter, etc.; but remember there is no self promotion, etc.

This thread also contains many valuable sources related to Lyndon Johnson and the book Passage of Power.

Any self promotion links or posts are removed.

by Robert A. Caro

by Jonathan Darman (no photo)

[Bryan]

(no image)I've Seen the Best of It: Memoirs by Joseph Wright Alsop

(no image)This Awesome Challenge: The Hundred Days of Lyndon Johnson by Michael Amrine

Enrique D. Rigsby

Bobby Baker

Russell Baker

Lyndon B. Johnson

Kai Bird

Jim Bishop

Joan Blair

Ben Bradlee

Taylor Branch

Walter Buenger

Vincent Bugliosi

John L. Bullion

(no image)Danger & Survival by McGeorge Bundy

(no image)john kennedy by James MacGregor Burns

Robert C. Byrd

Horace Busby

[Tomerobber]

I'm also reading the 1st vol. of this series
by Robert A. Caro

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Good for you Tomerobber.

[Tomerobber]

Thanks for reminding me about this . . . I have this . . . it was a freebee from the iTunes store a few years ago . . . and I have all of them. I'm rewatching this now.

[Tomerobber]

I re-watched this again last noc . . . very good series and loaded with lots of info and back material . . definitely a worthy addition to this discussion.

[Bryan]

It is a great series

[G]

Thanks for this. There is also an FDR series. I'll watch both. Also thanks for the Jefferson video on the landing page. Great resources.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

You are welcome G.

[Steven]

I remember the Evans and Novak book as being very informative on how LBJ rose to power in the Senate in the 1950's.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hi Mark, with two of the books that have no title - we use the link.

The Center: The Anatomy Of Power In Washington by Stewart Alsop (no bookcover and no photo)

Portrait Of A President by Hugh Sidey (no book cover and no photo)

[Mark]

Got it...thanks

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Thanks.

[Bryan]

Joseph A. Califano Jr.

Robert A. Caro

William H. Chafe

(no image)The Natural Superiority of Southern Politicians: A Revisionist History by David Leon Chandler

Clark Clifford

Peter Collier

John Connally

Nellie Connally

(no image)LBJ the way he was by Frank Cormier

(no image)In the Senate: Amidst the Conflict and the Turmoil by Norris Cotton

[Bryan]

by Robert Dallek

(no image)The Cape Cod Years of John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Leo Damore

(no image)Among Those Present by Nancy Dickerson

Robert A. Divine

(no image)Keystone Democrat: David Lawrence Remembered by Thomas J. Donaghy

Robert John Donovan

(no image)In the Fullness of Time: The Memoirs of Paul H. Douglas by Paul Howard Douglas

James W. Douglass

Fran Dressman

Ronnie Dugger

[Bryan]

(no image)Almost to the Presidency: A Biography of Two American Politicians by Albert Eisele

Rowland Evans

Paul B. Fay Jr.

(no image)From Failing Hands: The Story of Presidential Succession by John D. Feerick

Gilbert Courtland Fite

(no image)The Johnson Presidency: Twenty Intimate Perspectives Of Lyndon B. Johnson by Kenneth W. Thompson

[Bryan]

by Anne Garside

(no image)U.S. Government and Vietnam War by W. C. Gibbons

(no imgae)The Presidency of John F. KennedyJames N. Giglio

Robert E. Gilbert

Michael L. Gillette

Ronald L. Goldfarb

(no image)Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: A Historian's Personal Interpretation by Eric F. Goldman

John A. Goldsmith

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Richard N. Goodwin

Henry F. Graff

Cabinet Magazine

(no image)Kennedy Assassination and the American Public: Social Communication in Crisis by Bradley S. Greenberg

John Gunther

(no image)We Band Of Brothers by Edwin O Guthman

(no image)Robert Kennedy: In His Own Words : The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years by Edwin O. Guthman

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

As usual a fantastic bibliography.

[Bryan]

Nigel Hamilton

(no image)Rayburn: A Biography by D.B. Hardeman

Michael Harrington

(no image)Vice Presidents Of The United States 1789 1993 by Mark O. Hatfield

Ronald L. Heinemann

(no image)No Hail, No Farewell by Louis. Heren

Seymour M. Hersh

(no image)Honest John Williams: U.S. Senator from Delaware by Carol E. Hoffecker

Max Holland

Hubert H. Humphrey

[Bryan]

Lady Bird Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

(no image)My Brother, Lyndon by Sam Houston Johnson

[Bryan]

Laura Kalman

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach

Robert F. Kennedy

Nick Kotz

[Bryan]

(no image)J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth by Victor Lasky

Nicholas Lemann

(no image)Kennedy and Johnson by Evelyn Lincoln

Fredrik Logevall

(no image)Reporting the News: selections from Nieman reports by Louis M. Lyons

[Bryan]

William Raymond Manchester

Robert Mann

(no image)Hero for Our Time: An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years by Ralph G. Martin

Allen J. Matusow

David McCullough

Harry McPherson

(no image)LBJ: The White House Years by Harry Joseph Middleton

Merle Miller

(no image)LBJ: An Irreverent Chronicle by Booth Mooney

[Bryan]

The Newseum

Richard E. Neustadt

(no image)No Final Victories by Lawrence O'Brien

Michael O'Brien

(no image)Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Kenneth P. O'Donnell

Tip O'Neill

(no image)Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy by Herbert S. Parmet

James T. Patterson

Enrique D. Rigsby

Garth E. Pauley

Timothy Naftali

The Miller Center

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Such an enormous bibliography with so many tremendous books.

[Bryan]

I know, I would read just about every one of them, too.

[Bryan]

(no images)Lyndon B. Johnson: A Memoir & US Senate by George E. Reedy

Richard Reeves

(no image)The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally by James Reston Jr.

(no image)Breaking Barriers: A Memoir by Carl T. Rowan

Gretchen Rubin

Jan Jarboe Russell

[Bryan]

& (no image)With Kennedy. by Pierre Salinger

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Jeff Shesol

(no image)John F. Kennedy, Presidentti by Hugh Sidey

Jeffrey K. Smith

Sally Bedell Smith

Carl Solberg

& (no image)The Kennedy Legacy: A Peaceful Revolution for the Future by Theodore C. Sorensen

(no image)American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy by Jean Stein

(no image)Sam Rayburn : a biography by Alfred Steinberg

[Bryan]

Evan Thomas

Harry S. Truman

[Bryan]

United Press International

Jack Valenti

Francis R. Valeo

(no image)On His Own: RFK by William Vanden Heuval, Milton Gwirtzman

(no image)Kennedy Assassination and the American Public: Social Communication in Crisis by Bradley S. Greenberg

Earl Warren

Denton L. Watson

Michael P. Weber

J.B. West

(no image)Longest Debate by Charles Whalen

Richard J. Whalen

& (no image)The Making of the President 1964 by Theodore H. White

Tom Wicker

Roy Wilkins

(no image)Harry Byrd & the Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945-1966 by J. Harvie Wilkinson

Harris Wofford

(no image)20 Years In The Secret Service: My Life With Five Presidents by Rufus W. Youngblood

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Landslide - LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America

Oral History Collection, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, Texas

Bess Abell
George D. Aiken
Carl B. Albert
Steweart Alsop
George W. Ball
Hale Boggs
McGeorge Bundy
Horace Busby
Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter
Clifton C. Carter
Douglass S. Carter
John Chancellor
Marie Fehmer Chiarodo
Clark M. Cliffor
John Connally
Cartha D. DeLoach
Sharon Francis
Orville Freeman
Abe Fortas
Arthur J. Goldberg
Lady Bird Johnson
Arthur B. Krim
Godfrey McHugh
Robert S. McNamara
Harry C. McPherson, Jr.
Lawrence (Larry) O'Brien
Drew Pearson
Benjamin H. Read
George Reedy
Dean Rusk
Jewel Malechek Scott
Dorothy Territo
Helen Thomas
John G. Tower
Earl Warren
Lew Wasserman

Check out the source at:

http://www.lbjlibrary.net/collections...

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John F. Kennedy Oral History Collections, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts

Sid Davis, JFK #1
Nancy Tuckerman and Pamela Turnute, JFK #1
Jack Valenti, JFK #1

Check out the source at:

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ab...
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Search.aspx...

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Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collections, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts

Joseph W. Alsop, RFK #1
Joseph W. Alsop, RFK #2
Joseph W. Alsop, RFK #3

Check out the source at:

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Search.aspx...

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Ronald Reagan Gubertorial Era Series, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. California

Earl Dunckel, "Ronald Reagan and the General Electric Theater, 1954-1955"

Check out the source at:
https://archive.org/stream/reagangeth...

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Powell Library Oral History Program, Governmental History Documentation Project, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Neal Reagan, "Private Dimensions and Public Images: The Early Political Campaigns of Ronald Reagan"

Check out the source at:

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/col...

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Ronald Reagan Oral History, Miller Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Stuart Spencer

Check out the source at:

http://millercenter.org/president/rea...

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Landslide - LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America

Manuscript Collections

Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, TX

Diaries and Appointment Logs of Lyndon B. Johnson
Handwriting File
Office Files of the White House Aides
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Walter Jenkins
Harry C. McPherson
Bill Moyers

Office of the President Files
Social Files

Bess Abell's Subject Files
Liz Carpenter's Subject Files

Special File on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

White House Central Files (WHCF)
Confidential File (CF)
Executive Series (EX)
Subject Files

Check out the source at:

http://www.lbjlibrary.org/search

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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California

Reagan, Ronald: Governor's Papers, 1967-1975
1966 Campaign, Series I-V

Check out the source at:

http://www.reaganfoundation.org

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Recorded telephone conversations are from Presidential Recordings of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Miller Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Check out the source at:

http://millercenter.org/scripps/archi...
http://millercenter.org/presidentialr...

Love this one:

Albert Thomas gets the Johnson Treatment
http://millercenter.org/presidentialc...

Too bad we could not get somebody like this to run things.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Landslide - LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America

Books

A

(no image) Among Friends: Personal Letters of Dean Acheson by Dean Acheson (no photo)

by Judith Clavir Albert (no photo)

by Joseph W. Alsop (no photo)

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The bibliography thread is open if you would like to cite books that you feel relate to the discussion of the book Landslide. Make sure to add proper citations.

[Bryan]

If anyone is interested to learn about the political background of Dallas leading up to the JFK assassination:

by Bill Minutaglio (no photo)

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Great add Bryan - thank you very much.

[John]

A couple of books that came out this year that focuses on Reagan, Gorbachev and the Cold War:
by James Graham Wilson

And

by Ken Adelman No photo.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Thanks John

[John]

A few books that I don't see here (unless I missed them):


by Sean Wilentz (no photo)


and
by Steven F. Hayward (no photo)

by Ronald Reagan

by Michael K. Deaver (no photo)

by Lou Cannon (no photo)

and also a book (by a former professor of mine, but no relation that we know of, lol) on George Wallace, who made a brief cameo in the beginning:

by Dan T. Carter (no photo)

and one on Richard Daley who also appears in the Prologue:

by Adam Cohen (no photo)

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Thanks John - some great adds. Very much appreciated. - great citations

Usually the (no photo) part we just put in parens and in small letters at the end

[John]

Got it- just noticed that. Will remember next time. :)

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Yes - let me show you one:

by Adam Cohen (no photo)

[John]

Got it - I guess it stood out because most of the ones I listed had no photo, haha. Now I know.