Lady Bird And Lyndon: The Hidden Story Of A Marriage That Made A President

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Synopsis

This “smartly written…stunning” (The Boston Globe) portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, and ballast for her husband Lyndon offers “a penetrating analysis…of a marriage that paired two complicated but devoted figures, a coupling that changed the face of America” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).

Marriage is the most underreported story in political life, yet it is often the key to its success. Historian Betty Boyd Caroli spent seven years exploring the archives of the LBJ Library, interviewing dozens of people, and mining never-before-released letters between Lady Bird and Lyndon. The result “redefines the First Lady as an iron fist in a white glove” (Vanity Fair) and helps explain how the talented, but flawed Lyndon Baines Johnson ended up making history.

Lady Bird grew up the daughter of a domineering father and a cultured but fragile mother. When a tall, pushy Texan named Lyndon showed up in her life, they married within weeks with a tacit agreement: this highly gifted politician would take her away, and she would save him from his weaknesses. The conventional story goes that Lyndon married Lady Bird for her money and demeaned her by flaunting his many affairs, and that her legacy was protecting the nation’s wildflowers. But Caroli shows that she was also the one who swooped in to make the key call to a donor, to keep the team united, to campaign in hostile territory, and to jump-start Lyndon out of his paralyzing dark moods.

In Lady Bird and Lyndon, Caroli restores Lady Bird to her rightful place in history. But she also tells a love story whose compromises and edifying moments many women will recognize.

Chapters

  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 01 Title

    Duration: 31s
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 02 Prologue

    Duration: 11min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 03 Ch1

    Duration: 52min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 04 Ch2

    Duration: 50min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 05 Ch3

    Duration: 38min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 06 Ch4

    Duration: 49min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 07 Ch5

    Duration: 40min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 08 Ch6

    Duration: 50min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 09 Ch7

    Duration: 49min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 10 Ch8

    Duration: 39min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 11 Ch9

    Duration: 46min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 12 Ch10

    Duration: 42min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 13 Ch11

    Duration: 48min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 14 Ch12

    Duration: 46min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 15 Ch13

    Duration: 01h08min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 16 Ch14

    Duration: 56min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 17 Ch15

    Duration: 41min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 18 Ch16

    Duration: 47min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 19 Ch17

    Duration: 48min
  • LadyBirdAndLyndon 20 Ch18

    Duration: 50min
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