A review by statman
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.0

I like Doris Goodwin's books. My favorite is "Team of Rivals" that she wrote. This is one of her earlier books and is more of an "official biography". She was asked to write this and had a lot of time with Lyndon Johnson during the last few years of his life. He is a tough subject to write about, because of his tendency to exaggerate and tell stories he absolutely believed in, but weren't true. So the bulk of the book focuses on his career in the Senate and as President, with very little about his earlier life and his life after being President.