Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.

GOODWIN, Doris Kearns.

Item Number: 138108

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1976.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, “To Jane Engelhard, With all my best wishes to the mother of a lovely girl, Doris Kearns.” Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.

Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography "The most penetrating, fascinating political biography I have ever read . . . No other President has had a biographer who had such access to his private thoughts" (The New York Times).