![]() ![]() ![]() His father was a talented politician but financially challenged and Johnson veered from following his father like s shadow (in his more successful days) to despising him. He was born in Stonewall, in the Texas hill country in August 1908, the elder son of Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr and Rebekah Baines Johnson. The basic facts of Johnson's life are clear. With a non-fiction book it's my habit to make copious notes for the review: with The Path to Power I rapidly realised that there was no point in doing so. Johnson's five-year term in office was overshadowed at the start by the Kennedy assassination and increasingly blighted by the debacle which was Vietnam, but there was something about Johnson which always intrigued me: how does a poor boy from Texas hill country without an exceptional (or even 'good') education become president of the United States? The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power tells you all that you need to know. Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States, preceded by John F Kennedy and succeeded by Richard Nixon, with both being remembered most for the way they left office. It's not just a biography but a brilliantly-written slice of American history. Summary: The first part of the ultimate - and probably unsurpassable - biography of Lyndon Johnson. ![]()
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