Lyndon B. Johnson and Modern America, 25

by Kevin J. Fernlund

Book Overview

Born in a farmhouse in the Texas Hill Country, Lyndon Baines Johnson brought a western sensibility to the White House. Building on recent studies that have delved into Johnson's Texas roots, Kevin J. Fernlund has written a brief, lively biography of the thirty-sixth president that better shows how his home state molded his early years--and how the one-time Houston schoolteacher eventually became a Texas tornado twisting across the state's and soon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806140771
• ISBN13: 9780806140773
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"