Jan Jarboe Russell

Lady Bird (eBook, ePUB)

A Biography of Mrs. Johnson

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A revealing biography of Lady Bird Johnson exposes startling insights into her marriage to Lyndon Baines Johnsonand her unexpectedly strong impact on his presidency.

Long obscured by her husband's shadow, Claudia Lady Bird Johnson emerges in this first comprehensive biography as a figure of surprising influence and the centering force for LBJ, a man who suffered from extreme mood swings and desperately needed someone to help control his darker impulses.

Expertly researched and written, Lady Bird draws from rare conversations with the former First Lady and from interviews with key members of Johnson's inner circle of friends, family, and advisers. With chapters such as Motherless Child, A Ten-Week Affair, and LBJ's Midlife Crisis, Lady Bird sheds light on Mrs. Johnson's childhood, on her amazing acumen as a businesswoman, and on the central role she played in her husband's life and political career. A vital link to the Kennedys during LBJ's uneasy tenure as vice president and a voice of conscience on civil rights, Jan Jarboe Russell reveals Lady Bird as a political force. In this intimate portrait, Russell shows us the private Lady Birdnot only a passionate conservationist but a remarkable woman who greatly influenced her husband, his administration, and the country.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501106996
• Artikelnr.: 41829051

Autorenporträt

Jan Jarboe Russell is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II, winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Prize for Best Book of Nonfiction. She is a Neiman Fellow, a contributing editor for Texas Monthly, and has written for the San Antonio Express-News, The New York Times, Slate, and other magazines. She also compiled and edited They Lived to Tell the Tale. She lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, Dr. Lewis F. Russell, Jr.