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The best year of their lives : Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948 : learning the secrets of power
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- Creator
- Lance Morrow
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First paperback edition
- New York : BasicBooks, 2006
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xl, 312 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780465047246, 0465047246
- OCLC
- ocm71789824
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-290) and index.
- Three crises -- The anxiety of the overdog -- Annus mirabilis -- Three young men -- Jack's favorite movie -- The transformation of a Quaker boy -- Johnson at bay -- Washington -- Brumidi's frescoes and film noir -- Ellis Island, the frontier, and the Taft-Hartley Act -- Families -- The Johnsons of Texas -- The Kennedys: John Buchan and a strange Irish anglophilia -- The Nixons of California -- From society of necessity to society of choice -- Marshall -- Science and discoveries -- Early 1948 -- Lyndon for sale -- Young, obscure and orthogonian -- Jack and Kick: May 1948 -- The sinking of PT-109 -- The Caracas thesis -- LBJ's silver star -- Late summer -- Hiss case -- Lyndon vs. Coke