LBJ

Architect of American Ambition

Randall B. Woods

  • A Christian Science Monitor Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  1. Roots
  2. Growing Up
  3. College
  4. The Secretary
  5. Lady Bird and the NYA
  6. Congress
  7. Pappy
  8. War
  9. Truman and the Coming of the Cold War
  10. Coke
  11. A Populist Gentlemen’s Club
  12. Leader
  13. Passing the Lord’s Prayer
  14. Back from the Edge
  15. Containing the Red-Hots: From Dulles to the Dixie Association
  16. Lost in Space
  17. 1960
  18. Camelot Meets Mr. Cornpone
  19. Hanging On
  20. Interregnum: Death and Resurrection
  21. “Kennedy Was Too Conservative for Me”
  22. Free at Last
  23. Containment at Home and Abroad
  24. “The Countryside of the World”
  25. Bobby
  26. Barry
  27. A New Bill of Rights
  28. The Crux of the Matter
  29. Daunted Courage
  30. Castro’s and Kennedy’s Shadows
  31. A City on the Hill
  32. Balancing Act
  33. Divisions
  34. Civil War
  35. Battling Dr. Strangelove
  36. The Holy Land
  37. Backlash
  38. Of Hawks and Doves, Vultures and Chickens
  39. Tet
  40. A Midsummer Nightmare
  41. Touching the Void
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Cover: LBJ

Randall B. Woods is John A. Cooper Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. He is also the author of the widely praised Fulbright: A Biography.