Explores the thirty-sixth President's background, his personal outlook and behavior, his political career, and the political system that fostered his rise

Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and the deceit of Camelot. The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number...

Presents the United States Civil Rights Movement from Lyndon B. Johnson's perspective, from the introduction of Kennedy's civil rights bill to Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and Fair Housing Act.

The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

"In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission: to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence documents, the USS Pueblo was poorly armed and lacked backup by air or sea. Its crew, led by a charismatic, hard-drinking ex-submarine officer named Pete Bucher, was made up mostly of untested sailors in their teens and...

"In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin draws upon...

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. Here is the perfect joining of subject and writer: Johnson, the man of awesome complexity, energy, ambition, and power -- obsessed with secrecy, obscuring (often "rewriting") the facts of his personal and political life; Caro, his biographer, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his life of Robert Moses, The Power Broker -- and everywhere acclaimed for the brilliance, tenacity, and integrity...

Begins immediately following his victorious election to the Presidency, Lyndon Johnson's dreams for "The Great Society" and his vision for civil rights in America was devastated by the impact of the Vietnam War. A war he didn't start, but which he seemed unable to end. Torn between the recommendation of increased bombing to win and a nation torn apart by the deaths of young Americans overseas and the protest of those who stayed behind.

Lyndon B. Johnson remains a president that is largely misunderstood. He was a man of many sides. Johnson launched a revolution in civil rights, federal aid to education, and health care for the elderly and indigent, and expanded immigration and environmental protection. he signed over 200 land-mark laws during his five years in office. he was a man known for getting things done.