
One of "Five Best Books about Wartime Presidents"--Michael Bechloss, The Wall Street Journal From Lyndon Johnson's closest domestic adviser during the White House years comes a book in which "Johnson leaps out of the pages in all his raw and earthy glory"...

In this classic portrait of LBJ, Joseph A. Califano reveals the giant at close hand. Califano captures his mentor's lively, irascible spirit as he puts us in the White House alongside LBJ during the trauma of the Vietnam War and the creation of the Great Society. A new afterword...




In this classic portrait of LBJ, Joseph A. Califano reveals the giant at close hand. Califano captures his mentor's lively, irascible spirit as he puts us in the White House alongside LBJ during the trauma of the Vietnam War and the creation of the Great Society. A new afterword...

One of "Five Best Books about Wartime Presidents"--Michael Bechloss, The Wall Street Journal From Lyndon Johnson's closest domestic adviser during the White House years comes a book in which "Johnson leaps out of the pages in all his raw and earthy glory"...

President Lyndon Johnson was bigger than life-and no one who worked for him or was subjected to the Johnson treatment ever forgot it. As Johnson's Deputy President of Domestic Affairs, Joseph A. Califano's unique relationship with the president greatly enriches our understanding...