Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.

GOODWIN, Doris Kearns.

$450.00

Item Number: 138811

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1976.

First edition, early printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, “To the Madesons, Doris Kearns.” Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.

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).