Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight - Paperback
by Julia Sweig
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780812985849ISBN-10:812985842UPC:9780812985849Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political, American Government, United StatesBook Topic:Executive Branch, 20th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC6X2VD981
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
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
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780812985849ISBN-10:812985842UPC:9780812985849Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political, American Government, United StatesBook Topic:Executive Branch, 20th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC6X2VD981
Julia Sweig is an award-winning author of books on Cuba, Latin America, and American foreign policy. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, the Nation, the National Interest, and in Brazil's Folha de São Paulo, among other outlets. Her book Inside the Cuban Revolution won the American Historical Association's 2003 Herbert Feis Award. She served as senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations for fifteen years and concurrently led the Aspen Institute's congressional seminar on Latin America for ten years. She holds a doctorate and master's degree from the Johns Hopkins University. She is a non-resident senior research fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin and lives with her family outside of Washington, D.C.
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