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Download or read book The Lady of Lyndon written by Lady Blake and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by : Julia Sweig
Download or read book Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight written by Julia Sweig and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A revelation . . . a book in the Caro mold, using Lady Bird, along with tapes and transcripts of her entire White House diary, to tell the history of America during the Johnson years.”—The New York Times The inspiration for the documentary film The Lady Bird Diaries, premiering November 13 on Hulu Perhaps the most underestimated First Lady of the twentieth century, Lady Bird Johnson was also one of the most powerful. In Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, Julia Sweig reveals how indispensable the First Lady was to Lyndon Johnson’s administration—which Lady Bird called “our” presidency. In addition to advising him through critical moments, she took on her own policy initiatives, including the most ambitious national environmental effort since Theodore Roosevelt and a virtually unknown initiative to desegregate access to public recreation and national parks in Washington, D.C. Where no presidential biographer has understood Lady Bird’s full impact, Julia Sweig is the first to draw substantially on her White House diaries and to place her center stage. In doing so, Sweig reveals a woman ahead of her time—and an accomplished strategist and politician in her own right. Winner of the Texas Book Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bogard Weld Award
Download or read book The Lady of Lyndon written by Lady Blake and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Download or read book Lady Bird written by Jan Jarboe Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an excerpt from Jan Jarboe Russell's The Train to Crystal City.
Book Synopsis Lady Bird Johnson by : Michael L. Gillette
Download or read book Lady Bird Johnson written by Michael L. Gillette and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation into one of America's most effective and admired First Ladies. Lady Bird Johnson's odyssey is one of personal and intellectual growth, political and financial ambition, and a shared life with Lyndon Baines Johnson, one of the most complicated, volatile, and powerful presidents of the 20th century. The former First Lady recounts how a cautious, conservative young woman succumbed to an ultimatum to marry a man she had known for less than three months, how she ran his congressional office during World War II, and how she transformed a struggling Austin radio station into the foundation of a communications empire. As a keen observer of the Washington scene during the eventful decades from the 1930s through the 1960s, Lady Bird Johnson shares dramatic accounts of pivotal moments in American history. We attend informal dinners at Sam Rayburn's apartment and opulent social events at grand mansions from an earlier age. Her rich verbal portraits bring to life scores of personalities, including First Ladies Edith Bolling Wilson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Pat Nixon. An informal, candid narrative by one of America's most admired First Ladies, this volume reveals how instrumental Lady Bird Johnson's support and guidance were at each stage of her husband's political ascent and how she herself emerged as a significant political force.
Book Synopsis The Ladies of Lyndon by : Margaret Kennedy
Download or read book The Ladies of Lyndon written by Margaret Kennedy and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, [19--?]. This book was released on 1925 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment by : Lewis L. Gould
Download or read book Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment written by Lewis L. Gould and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s Lady Bird Johnson sought to improve the natural appearance of Washington, D.C., to make the nation’s highways less cluttered with billboards and junkyards, and to advance the environmental agenda of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. The popular understanding of what she did remains incomplete, and her role as a woman conservationist has not been well understood. In this, the first book to example her accomplishments as First Lady, Lewis Gould shows Lady Bird Johnson as a catalyst for environmental ideas and as a powerful and persuasive force within her husband’s administration. Although passage of the Highway Beautification Act in 1965 was the legislative apex of her efforts, Lady Bird Johnson also articulated a wide range of conservation issues, framing policy initiatives and focusing public opinion. She instilled conservation and ecological ideas in the national mind, Gould argues, with a skill and adroitness that puts Mrs. Johnson in the front rank among modern First Ladies. Indeed, in his view, only Eleanor Roosevelt surpasses her in importance. This book is the result of Gould’s extensive research in the LBJ Library and draws on his interviews with such key figures as Interior Secretary Steward Udall, Press Secretary Liz Carpenter, District of Columbia Mayor Walter Washington, and Lady Bird Johnson herself.
Book Synopsis The Triumph of Nancy Reagan by : Karen Tumulty
Download or read book The Triumph of Nancy Reagan written by Karen Tumulty and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The made-in-Hollywood marriage of Ronald and Nancy Reagan was the partnership that made him president. Nancy understood how to foster his strengths and compensate for his weaknesses-- and made herself a place in history. Tumulty shows how Nancy's confidence developed, and reveals new details surrounding Reagan's tumultuous presidency that shows how Nancy became one of the most influential first ladies in history. -- adapted from jacket
Book Synopsis Lady Bird and Lyndon by : Betty Boyd Caroli
Download or read book Lady Bird and Lyndon written by Betty Boyd Caroli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marriage is the most underreported story in political life and yet is often the key to its success. This is the idea driving a revealing new portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, peacemaker, and ballast for Lyndon...[A] biography of a political partnership that helps explain how the wildly talented but deeply flawed Lyndon Baines Johnson ended up making history..."--P. [2] of jacket.
Book Synopsis Destiny of Democracy by : Mark K. Updegrove
Download or read book Destiny of Democracy written by Mark K. Updegrove and published by LBJ Library & Briscoe Center Ut-Austin. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to the historic 2014 summit hosted by the LBJ Presidential Library and attended by four presidents to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act.
Book Synopsis The Texas White House by : John Whitlock
Download or read book The Texas White House written by John Whitlock and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Version 2 of original. Stories and photographs from inside and outside the 36th president's home in the Texas Hill Country. Book written by a former park superintendent who worked with the Johnson family to transform the ranch house from private residence to public museum. The stories are those shared with him by family, friends and associates of the President and First Lady.
Book Synopsis Reaching for Glory by : Lyndon Baines Johnson
Download or read book Reaching for Glory written by Lyndon Baines Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcribing and selecting the most stunning moments from hundreds of hours of newly released LBJ tapes, Beschloss has added another permanent treasure to the American historical record. Throughout this incredible narrative, he provides keen commentary and historical contexts, revealing just how profoundly LBJ changed the presidency--and America itself.
Book Synopsis The Luck of Barry Lyndon by : William Makepeace Thackeray
Download or read book The Luck of Barry Lyndon written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The lady of Lyndon written by lady Blake and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! by : Tracy Nelson Maurer
Download or read book Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! written by Tracy Nelson Maurer and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! is Tracy Nelson Maurer's lively picture book biography of Lady Bird Johnson, with a focus on her environmentalist passion and legacy as First Lady. Who fought to stop pollution? Who helped make America cleaner and greener? Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! Claudia Alta Taylor was a lonely girl, shy as a butterfly growing up in Texas. She never dreamed she'd blossom into a visionary leader whose love for wildflowers, beautiful landscapes, and building community compelled her to lead the effort to combat pollution in the United States. A lifelong environmentalist, Lady Bird Johnson embraced her platform as First Lady to promote policy that beautified America’s roadways, waterways and parks, inspiring people to take pride in the places they live. With elements of women’s history, civics, and conservationism, this is a timely and informative picture book biography.
Book Synopsis The Roosevelt Women by : Betty Boyd Caroli
Download or read book The Roosevelt Women written by Betty Boyd Caroli and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roosevelt name conjures up images of powerful Presidents and dashing men of high society. But few people know much about the extraordinary network of women that held the Roosevelt clan together through war, scandal, and disease. In The Roosevelt Women, Betty Boyd Caroli weaves together stories culled from a rich store of letters, memoirs, and interviews to chronicle nine extraordinary Roosevelt women across a century and a half of turbulent history. She examines the Roosevelt women as mothers, daughters, wives, and, beyond that, as world travelers, authors, campaigners, and socialites -- in short, as themselves. She reveals how they demonstrated the energy and intellectual curiosity that defined their famous family, as well as the roles they played in the intrigues, scandals, and accomplishments that were hallmarks of the Roosevelt clan. From the much maligned Sara Delano (who sired Franklin and by turns terrified and supported Eleanor) to Theodore's irrepressible daughter, Alice ("I can either rule the country or control Alice," Teddy once said) to the beloved Bamie, who was the only mother Alice ever knew, and the model of everything she never was in life, to the exceptionally beautiful but ultimately overwhelmed Mittie, Theodore's mother, The Roosevelt Women is an intricate portrait of bold and talented women, a grand tale of both unbearable tragedies and triumphant achievements.
Book Synopsis First Ladies of the Republic by : Jeanne E. Abrams
Download or read book First Ladies of the Republic written by Jeanne E. Abrams and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in America America’s first First Ladies—Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison—had the challenging task of playing a pivotal role in defining the nature of the American presidency to a fledgling nation and to the world. In First Ladies of the Republic, Jeanne Abrams breaks new ground by examining their lives as a group. From their visions for the future of the burgeoning new nation and its political structure, to ideas about family life and matrimony, these three women had a profound influence on one another’s views as they created the new role of presidential spouse. Martha, Abigail and Dolley walked the fine line between bringing dignity to their lives as presidential wives, and supporting their husbands’ presidential agendas, while at the same time, distancing themselves from the behavior, customs and ceremonies that reflected the courtly styles of European royalty that were inimical to the values of the new republic. In the face of personal challenges, public scrutiny, and sometimes vocal criticism, they worked to project a persona that inspired approval and confidence, and helped burnish their husbands’ presidential reputations. The position of First Lady was not officially authorized or defined, and the place of women in society was more restricted than it is today. These capable and path-breaking women not only shaped their own roles as prominent Americans and “First Ladies,” but also defined a role for women in public and private life in America.