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GOODWIN, Doris Kearns.

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers , 1976.

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First Edition Of Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; Warmly Inscribed By Doris Kearns Goodwin
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author with a full page inscription on the half-title page, "For ____ ____, 'He cannot speak clearly if his words must be strained through a Congressional gag.' With my great appreciation for your enjoyment of my work! Doris Kearns Goodwin." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. A unique example.
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 "The most penetrating, fascinating political biography I have ever read . . . No other President has had a biographer who had such access to his private thoughts" (The New York Times).
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