The dark side of Lyndon Baines Johnson
By: Joachim Joesten.
Publisher: Peter Dawnay
Published: 1968
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon Baines, -- 1908-1973.
First sentence: He has certainly been misrepresented but not in the sense that his defenders intend one to believe. For few, even of his detractors, have ever guessed at the depth of his inequity. In this book the real character of the 36th President is revealed to the public to gaze for the very first time. The author strips away the layers of pretense and hypocrisy accumulated by the publicists and myth-makers  employed by Johnson to project a false image on to an unsuspecting world. Instead of the weary features of the father-figure he shows us the lean and hungry visage of a wolf. Instead of the honest seeker of the right, he shows us the dark forces of evil which lurk at Johnson's elbow.
Description: To the world at large Lyndon Baines Johnson appears as an honest and hardworking President, not over-endowed with the qualities of a great leader but nonetheless a solid and dependable figure. Those who have their doubts about him are reasured by others who claim that he is much maligned and misunderstood. He has had bad luck, the say, or he has been misrepresented.
Notes: " A challenge..... " on the back cover is a must read; and will make you wonder if the allegations set forth by Bild am Sonntag ( which were never challenged) were indeed true.
Table of contents: title: POWER AT ANY PRICE His Own Worst Enemy
pagenum: 11
class: part
label: 1; label: 1
pagenum: 18
class: part
title: The Roots of Illegitimate Power; label: 1
pagenum: 30
class: part
title: The Texas Power Grab; label: 1
pagenum: 38
class: part
title: " To Get Our Man Elected"; title: HOW JOHNSON BECAME A MULTIMILLIONAIRE
pagenum: 45
class: part
label: 2; label: 3
pagenum: 93
class: part
title: LBJ AND BOBBY BAKER; label: 4
pagenum: 223
class: part
title: HOW LBJ SHIELDED KENNEDY'S ASSASINS