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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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