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I enjoyed this book a great deal. LBJ was a rough sort of man...not someone I'd hold on a pedistal. But in reading this book I learned that he was extremely motivated to achieve success and became a remarkably adept politician. Having grown up, but being young at the time, when he became vice president, running with John F. Kennedy, I realized just how much I did not know or remember about the many events that were happening around me. I had an awareness of the tension between the US and the USSR over the Cuban missle crisis, but I was not aware of the poverty around me. Living in Atlanta, GA, I was aware of the tension between whites and blacks, but being in my teens, I really didn't care what was going on. My friends and I would sit in the back of the bus where the "colored folks" were suppose to sit...we thought we were being a bit rebellious, but what we were doing could have been deemed offensive by those who were oppressed by a white society. Reading this book about Johnson not only told me a great deal about him as a man and president, but also educated me about the history of the time. Reading this made me also realize just how and why we were in Vietnam and how this issue became so explosive in our country.

This as was a good read!