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Indomitable Will

by Mark Updegrove

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With more than a hundred photos, videos, recorded phone conversations, letters, and speeches, this enhanced eBook edition of Indomitable Will brings to life the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson like never before. Nearly fifty years after being sworn in as president of the United States in the wake of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson remains a largely misunderstood figure. His force of personal­ity, mastery of power and the political process, and boundless appetite for social reform made him one of the towering figures of his time. But he was one of the most protean and paradoxical of presidents as well. Because of his flawed nature and inherent contradic­tions, some claimed there were as many LBJs as there were people who knew him.…

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"In addition to Goodwin’s book, I plunged into Robert Caro’s “Master of the Senate,” Mark Updegrove’s “Indomitable Will,” and Michael Beschloss’s “Taking Charge.”"
By the Book: Bryan Cranston · nytimes.com