Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
By
Julia Sweig
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Kirsten Potter
Release:
03/16/2021
Runtime:
18h 2m
Unabridged
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“To those who do not know [Lady Bird’s] story, Sweig’s book will come as a revelation.”
New York Times
New York Times bestseller
#1 Amazon bestseller
A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
Winner of the Texas Book Award
Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A revelation . . . a book in the Caro mold, using Lady Bird, along with tapes and transcripts of her entire White House diary, to tell the history of America during the Johnson years.”—The New York Times
The inspiration for the documentary film The Lady Bird Diaries, premiering November 13 on Hulu
Perhaps the most underestimated First Lady of the twentieth century, Lady Bird Johnson was also one of the most powerful. In Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, Julia Sweig reveals how indispensable the First Lady was to Lyndon Johnson’s administration—which Lady Bird called “our” presidency. In addition to advising him through critical moments, she took on her own policy initiatives, including the most ambitious national environmental effort since Theodore Roosevelt and a virtually unknown initiative to desegregate access to public recreation and national parks in Washington, D.C.
Where no presidential biographer has understood Lady Bird’s full impact, Julia Sweig is the first to draw substantially on her White House diaries and to place her center stage. In doing so, Sweig reveals a woman ahead of her time—and an accomplished strategist and politician in her own right.
This program includes an actual recording of Lady Bird’s audio diary, dated October 12, 1965.
Winner of the Texas Book Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bogard Weld Award
The inspiration for the documentary film The Lady Bird Diaries, premiering November 13 on Hulu
Perhaps the most underestimated First Lady of the twentieth century, Lady Bird Johnson was also one of the most powerful. In Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, Julia Sweig reveals how indispensable the First Lady was to Lyndon Johnson’s administration—which Lady Bird called “our” presidency. In addition to advising him through critical moments, she took on her own policy initiatives, including the most ambitious national environmental effort since Theodore Roosevelt and a virtually unknown initiative to desegregate access to public recreation and national parks in Washington, D.C.
Where no presidential biographer has understood Lady Bird’s full impact, Julia Sweig is the first to draw substantially on her White House diaries and to place her center stage. In doing so, Sweig reveals a woman ahead of her time—and an accomplished strategist and politician in her own right.
This program includes an actual recording of Lady Bird’s audio diary, dated October 12, 1965.
Winner of the Texas Book Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bogard Weld Award
Release:
2021-03-16
Runtime:
18h 2m
Format:
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593346143
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
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