JFK and LBJ (The Influence of Personality Upon Politics) By: Tom Wicker

JFK and LBJ (The Influence of Personality Upon Politics) By: Tom Wicker

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Overview:

In JFK and LBJ one of our most astute political observers examines two important events of the 1960s: why John F. Kennedy, the popular president, failed to push his legislative program through Congress, and why Lyndon B. Johnson, the consummate domestic politician, squandered his great consensus in an unpopular war in Vietnam. Tom Wicker's theme is that personality and circumstance dominate political life–that government consists chiefly of "not measures but men." Mr. Wicker's detailed and absorbing account, much of it going 

Product details

Paperback: 300 pages

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee; New edition edition (May 1, 1991)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0929587596

ISBN-13: 978-0929587592

Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 0.8 x 8.3 inches

Shipping Weight: 12 ounces