Best lyndon johnson biography

There are countless books on Lyndon Johnson, and it comes with good reason, upon being sworn in as America’s thirty-sixth President following the assassination of President John F.

Kennedy, he began building out his vision of “A Great Society” for the American people.

“If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology.

We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it,” he remarked.

In order to get to the bottom of what inspired one of history’s most consequential figures to the height of political power, we’ve compiled a list of the 10 best books on Lyndon Johnson.

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s extraordinary and insightful biography draws from meticulous research in addition to the author’s time s