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  title info:
    title: JFK and LBJ
    sub title: the last two great presidents
  name:
    name part: Hodgson, Godfrey
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 274 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: As a young White House correspondent during the Kennedy and Johnson years in Washington, D.C., Godfrey Hodgson had a ringside seat covering the last two great presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, two men who could not have been more different. Kennedy's wit and dashing style, his renown as a national war hero and his Ivy League Boston Brahmin background stood in sharp contrast to Lyndon Johnson's rural, humble origins in Texas, his blunt, forceful (but effective) political style, his lackluster career in the navy and his grassroots populist instincts. Hodgson, a sharp-eyed witness throughout the tenure of these two great men, now offers us a new perspective enriched by his reflections since that time a half-century ago. He offers us a fresh, dispassionate contrast of these two great men by stripping away the myths to assess their achievements, ultimately asking whether Johnson has been misjudged. He suggests that LBJ be given his due by history, arguing that he was as great a president as, perhaps even greater than, JFK. The seed that grew into this book was the author's early perception that JFK's performance in office was largely overrated while LBJ's was consistently underrated. Hodgson asks key questions. If Kennedy had lived, would he have matched Johnson's ambitious Great Society achievements? Would he have avoided Johnson's disastrous commitment in Vietnam? Would Nixon have been elected his successor, and if not, how would American politics and parties look today? Hodgson combines lively anecdotes with sober analyses to arrive at new conclusions about the U.S. presidency and two of the most charismatic figures ever to govern from the Oval Office.
  table of contents: Introduction: a parting of the ways -- Part I. The actors -- Life is unfair -- One brief shining moment -- Doctor Fell -- Part II. The actions -- Rumors of war, rumors of peace -- Other Americas -- Surpassing Kennedy -- No umbrella man -- Conclusion.
  note: Godfrey Hodgson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald)
      name part: 1917-1963
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines)
      name part: 1908-1973
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1961-1963
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1963-1969
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  classification: E842 .H58 2015
  classification: 973.09/9
  identifier: 9780300180503 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0300180500 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2014045527
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150209
    record change date: 20151105210000.0
    record identifier: in00003533458