Volume 38, Number 20 · December 5, 1991
The Return of LBJ
By C. Vann Woodward
Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960
by Robert Dallek
Oxford University Press, 721 pp., $30.00
The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years
by Joseph A. Califano Jr.
Simon and Schuster, 398 pp., $25.00
Among the presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to George Bush, Lyndon Johnson has no serious rival for the distinction of being held in lowest esteem in current public opinion. A recent Harris poll found him ranked at the bottom of nearly all categories named. These included high moral standards, in which even Richard Nixon placed above Johnson, and John F. Kennedy stood at the very top. There seems little doubt that LBJ is the president Americans now most love to hate.
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