{"product_id":"lady-bird-johnson-hiding-in-plain-sight-paperback","title":"Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia Sweig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - A magisterial portrait of Lady Bird Johnson, and a major reevaluation of the profound yet underappreciated impact the First Lady's political instincts had on LBJ's presidency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[An] extensive, engaging new biography . . . in the Caro mold . . . To those who do not know [Lady Bird's] story, Sweig's book will come as a revelation.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe inspiration for the documentary film \u003ci\u003eThe Lady Bird Diaries \u003c\/i\u003e- WINNER OF THE TEXAS BOOK AWARD - LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the spring of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a decision to make. Just months after moving into the White House under the worst of circumstances--following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy--he had to decide whether to run to win the presidency in his own right. He turned to his most reliable, trusted political strategist: his wife, Lady Bird Johnson. The strategy memo she produced for him, emblematic of her own political acumen and largely overlooked by biographers, is just one revealing example of how their marriage was truly a decades-long political partnership. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerhaps the most underestimated First Lady of the twentieth century, Lady Bird Johnson was also one of the most accomplished and often her husband's secret weapon. Managing the White House in years of national upheaval, through the civil rights movement and the escalation of the Vietnam War, Lady Bird projected a sense of calm and, following the glamorous and modern Jackie Kennedy, an old-fashioned image of a First Lady. In truth, she was anything but. As the first First Lady to run the East Wing like a professional office, she took on her own policy initiatives, including the most ambitious national environmental effort since Teddy Roosevelt. Occupying the White House during the beginning of the women's liberation movement, she hosted professional women from all walks of life in the White House, including urban planning and environmental pioneers like Jane Jacobs and Barbara Ward, encouraging women everywhere to pursue their own careers, even if her own style of leadership and official role was to lead by supporting others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhere no presidential biographer has understood the full impact of Lady Bird Johnson's work in the White House, Julia Sweig is the first to draw substantially on Lady Bird's own voice in her White House diaries to place Claudia Alta \"Lady Bird\" Johnson center stage and to reveal a woman ahead of her time--and an accomplished politician in her own right.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Sweig\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning author of books on Cuba, Latin America, and American foreign policy. Her writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNational Interest\u003c\/i\u003e, and in Brazil's \u003ci\u003eFolha de São Paulo\u003c\/i\u003e, among other outlets. Her book \u003ci\u003eInside the Cuban Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e won the American Historical Association's 2003 Herbert Feis Award. She served as senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations for fifteen years and concurrently led the Aspen Institute's congressional seminar on Latin America for ten years. She holds a doctorate and master's degree from the Johns Hopkins University. She is a non-resident senior research fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin and lives with her family outside of Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766396191008,"sku":"9780812985849","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8fa8202ebcde2b8e3d27cce69c6d0d0c.webp?v=1780291888","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lady-bird-johnson-hiding-in-plain-sight-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}