Volume 7, Number 2 · August 18, 1966
All the Way With LBJ
By Hans J. Morgenthau
Lyndon B. Johnson and the World
by Philip L. Geyelin
Praeger, 309 pp., $5.95
This is the best book thus far written on the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. It has the same psychological acumen, quality of political analysis, wealth of detailed and, in good measure, new information as do the best books written on John F. Kennedy's stewardship. It is eloquent testimony to the ability of an adroit and discriminating journalist to penetrate the secrets of state, without excluding obviously classified documents. The author pays tribute to his sources of information, who 'are men living or working somewhere within Lyndon Johnson's ken…. In any case, it is in the nature of things, above all in Lyndon Johnson's Washington, that anonymity is the price of a reasonable degree of candor about an incumbent President.'
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