Hershman's research makes a strong case. She extracts anecdotes,
conversations, and examples from LBJ's recorded behavior, starting with
childhood, and stitches it into an enlightening narrative. The result is a
biography of a president unlike any other. It explains why LBJ waged war
in Vietnam as soon as JFK, who planned to pull out, was assassinated. It's
scary, because today George W. Bush, fortified by religious zeal, is going
crazy in Iraq. But Bush clearly wants the oil that America needs to keep
its SUVs running, which at least offers hope that Bush, unlike LBJ, may
not be clinically unbalanced. Vietnam, by contrast, had nothing the U.S. or
LBJ wanted -- it was mainly a matter of Lyndon Johnson's manic depression.
ISBN 1-56980-243-2
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