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1 online resource (1 audio file (360 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by the author. |
| Summary |
Taking Charge brings you into the room with an American political legend, still hated and revered a quarter century after his death. We hear Lyndon Johnson as he schemes and blusters, rewards and punishes, and reveals a bedrock core of unshakable political beliefs. The only President to record his private conversations from his first day in office, LBJ ordered these tapes locked in a vault until at least the year 2023. But now they have been unsealed, providing a close-up look at a President taking power such as we have never had before - from John F. Kennedy's murder in November 1963 to Johnson's campaign for a landslide victory. Taking Charge is filled with revelations about the full-blooded Texan behind the public image. You will hear LBJ: * Revealing his self-doubts and personal anguish over the responsibilities of the presidency; * Receiving the frank criticism of his wife, Lady Bird Johnson; * Staking his presidency on a revolutionary civil rights bill; * Scuttling Robert Kennedy's drive to be his Vice President; * Using the Tonkin Gulf attack to expand the American beachhead in Southeast Asia; * Unveiling his private, tortured early doubts that we could ever win a war in Vietnam. Taking Charge gives us an unprecedented look into a crucial presidency that continues to shape our lives today. In LBJ's own words, it is history "with the bark off." |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Archives.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969 -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Beschloss, Michael.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780743567909 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0743567900 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11639596 |
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