Lone Star Rising (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Dallek
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1908-1960
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Lyndon B. Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Sam Ealy Johnson, Rebekah Baines Johnson, John Connally, Thomas G. Corcoran, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hubert H. Humphrey, Walter Jenkins, Richard B. Russell, Sam Rayburn, Alvin J. Wirtz
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, Civil rights, 1960’s, Politics, Twentieth century, 1940’s, Depression, economic, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Ambition, Government, Presidents, Texas, 1900’s
- Locales: United States
In his autobiographical memoir The Good Times (1990), Russell Baker recalls his days as White House correspondent for The New York Times during the mid-1950’s. At that time, Baker observes, the Senate was remarkably well supplied with talented leaders, but one, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas, stood alone: “Johnson was a flesh- and-blood, three-volume biography, and if you ever got it written you’d discover after publication that you’d missed the key point and got the interpretation completely wrong and needed a fourth to set things right.” Multifaceted...
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