Means of ascent
(1990)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/JOHNSON,L

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Availability

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Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/JOHNSON,L Due: 4/30/2024

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [1990]
©1990
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xxxiv, 522 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780394528359, 0394528352, 9780394528359
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Introduction: Ends and means -- pt. I. "Too Slow": Going back ; All quiet on the Western front ; In the Pacific ; Lady Bird ; Marking time ; Buying and selling ; One of a crowd -- pt. II. The Old and the New: The story of Coke Stevenson ; Head start ; "Will!" ; The Flying windmill ; All or nothing ; The stealing ; Lists of names ; Qualities of leadership ; The making of a legend ; A love story ; Three rings

Carries Johnson from his 19th senate defeat through WWII and on to the securing of his political and economic fortunes