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Robert Dallek’s *Flawed Giant* concludes a detailed study of Lyndon B. Johnson by offering the most exhaustive account of the president’s political career and private life to date. The narrative is based on newly released White House recordings and interviews with key individuals, painting Johnson as a visionary legislator who shaped Congress and as a man deeply gripped by the Vietnam conflict and its personal costs. Dallek’s balanced prose presents Johnson’s achievements alongside the complexities that defined his long tenure in the White House.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Political Biography
Authors: Robert Dallek
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