By Doris Kearns Goodwin
An engrossing biography of President Lyndon Johnson from the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer of Team of Rivals
Hailed by way of the New York instances as "the so much penetrating, attention-grabbing political biography i've got ever read," Doris Kearns Goodwin's notable and insightful booklet attracts from meticulous examine as well as the author's time spent operating on the White condo from 1967 to 1969. After Lyndon Johnson's time period ended, Goodwin remained his confidante and assisted within the practise of his memoir. In Lyndon Johnson and the yankee Dream she strains the thirty sixth president's lifestyles from formative years to his early days in politics, and from his management of the Senate to his presidency, interpreting his dramatic years within the White condominium, together with either his old household triumphs and his mess ups in Vietnam. Drawn from own anecdotes and candid dialog with Johnson, Goodwin paints a wealthy and intricate portrait of 1 of our nation's such a lot compelling politicians.
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After a week, I headed north to Chicago. On the South Side I toured the declining blues clubs, most of whose customers were old and poor. The area was poised between its golden age, when it vied with Harlem for the role of capital of Black America, and the dismal last decades of the twentieth century when it spiralled down into violence and destitution. I introduced myself to Muddy Waters at Pepper’s Lounge, his home base. His band included stars in their own right, such as James Cotton on harmonica and pianist Otis Spann.
I repeated the experiment with Big Joe Williams a few months later, but despite lessons learned, his visit was almost as stressful as Estes’. I was beginning to grasp some of the recurring themes in my life: the tension when artists from a poverty-stricken community confront the spoiled offspring of the educated middle class and the conflict between the latter’s desire to hear the ‘real thing’ and the former’s desire to be ‘up to date’. Hearing traditional musicians when they first emerge from their own communities is a wonderful experience but impossible to repeat: the music is inevitably altered by the process of ‘discovery’.
Before long, prefab rockers like Fabian and Frankie Avalon started edging out the doo-wop groups. In a year or two, the rock’n’roll era was over, replaced by chirpy corporate pop. Like most non-conforming kids, we began to look further afield for our musical adventures. Chapter 2 THERE IS A NAÏF SKETCH from the 1820s of apprentices at a New York market watching black kids ‘dancing for eels’ on overturned stall tables. The white boys lean forward, fascinated by the exuberance of the dancers. Warwick and I and a few of our friends were like the boys in that old drawing, leaning towards a culture we sensed held clues for us about escaping the confines of our middle-class upbringing and becoming male sexual beings.