Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream..., Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream..., Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrator: Gabra Zackman, Jim Frangione

Unabridged: 17 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/18/2016

Synopsis

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she became fascinated by the man—his character, his enormous energy and drive, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power. As a member of his White House staff, she soon became his personal confidante, and in the years before his death he revealed himself to her as he did to no other.

Widely praised and enormously popular, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant, conflicted humanity.

About Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s work for President Johnson inspired her career as a presidential historian. Her first book was Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize–winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II. She earned the Lincoln Prize for Team of Rivals, in part the basis for Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, about the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Her bestselling Leadership: In Turbulent Times was the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced. Her most recent book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, provides a front-row seat to the pivotal people—JFK, LBJ, RFK, and MLK—and events of this momentous decade.

About Gabra Zackman

Gabra Zackman knows romance. Her clever and “thrilling romantic caper” (Library Journal) Bod Squad series was inspired by the more than one hundred romance and women’s fiction titles she has narrated for audio. She divides her time between her native New York City and Denver, Colorado.

Reviews

Goodreads review by CoachJim on July 23, 2024

Lyndon Johnson recruited Doris Kearns Goodwin to assist him in writing his memoirs at the end of his presidency. She had served as a White House Intern for the last year of his presidency. In her work with Johnson on his memoirs she is able to record LBJ’s personal views on some of the historical fa......more

Goodreads review by Brett on September 05, 2023

"If it hadn't been for Vietnam—how many times this phrase has been spoken in conversations assessing Johnson's place in history...Indeed, from the beginning, Johnson later claimed, he himself foresaw and weighed the devastating consequences of war on domestic reform, but in the end, felt he had no c......more

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov on February 22, 2021

This was Goodwin’s first major historical work. "I was a twenty-four-year-old Ph.D. candidate at Harvard selected as a White House Fellow, a program designed to let young people work with the President and members of his cabinet. While I strongly opposed the war in Vietnam, I wholeheartedly supporte......more

Goodreads review by Jean on December 20, 2018

A number of years ago, I read Robert A. Caro’s four volume biography about Lyndon Baines Johnson. After reading Caro’s books I felt as if I had a fairly good understanding of Johnson. This biography of Johnson is obviously biased. Doris Kearns Goodwin was a Ph.D. intern in the Johnson White House. He......more

Goodreads review by James on August 22, 2014

At first I balked at the 22-page forward written by the author some years after publication, but as it turned out, that was by far the most interesting part of the book. This book was truly a stuggle to finish, but I persevered and after 8 weeks I got there! This was a very sanitized portrait of Lyn......more

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