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Condizione: VERY GOOD. First printing. Includes an introduction by The Right Honorable Jennie Lee. Foreword by Hubert H. Humphrey. Premise by S. Dillon Ripley. Essays by Bertrand de Jouvenel, Rene Dubos, Paul Goodman, Edward T. Hall, Philip Johnson, Ian L. McHarg,Wolfgang Braunfels, Asa Briggs, Hiroshi Daifuku, Robert C. Wood and others. 250 pp. Fine in a good only dust jacket (edgewear to the dj, some loss of paper at the ends of the spine). …

First edition of Booth Mooney's biography of Lyndon B. Johnson. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Association copy, inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson on the front free endpaper, "To Hubert Humphrey with my high regard Lyndon B. Johnson." The recipient, Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., served as Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president from 1965 to 1969. Humphrey took office on January 20, 1965, ending the 14-month vacancy of the Vice President of the United States, which had remained empty when then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the Presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. As President Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president, he supported the controversial Vietnam War. An intensely divided Democratic Party nominated him in the 1968 presidential election, which he lost to Republican nominee Richard Nixon. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. In this intimate portrait of Senator Johnson, his executive assistant and consultant Booth Mooney relays the complete story of Johnson's rise to power. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson served as a United States Representative and as the Majority Leader in the United States Senate prior to serving as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson is one of only four people who have served in all four federal elected positions. …