Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America - Jonathan Darman Audiobook
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In politics, the man who takes the highest spot after a landslide is not standing on solid ground.
In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how, from 1963 to 1966, these two men—the same age, and driven by the same heroic ambitions—changed American politics forever.
The liberal and the conservative. The deal-making arm twister and the cool communicator. The Texas rancher and the Hollywood star. Opposites in politics and style, Johnson and Reagan shared a defining impulse: to set forth a grand story of America, a story in which he could be the hero. In the tumultuous days after the Kennedy assassination, Johnson and Reagan each, in turn, seized the chance to offer the country a new vision for the future. Bringing to life their vivid personalities and the anxious mood of America in a radically transformative time, Darman shows how, in promising the impossible, Johnson and Reagan jointly dismantled the long American tradition of consensus politics and ushered in a new era of fracture. History comes to life in Darman’s vivid, fly-on-the wall storytelling.
Even as Johnson publicly revels in his triumphs, we see him grow obsessed with dark forces he believes are out to destroy him, while his wife, Lady Bird, urges her husband to put aside his paranoia and see the world as it really is. And as the war in Vietnam threatens to overtake his presidency, we witness Johnson desperately struggling to compensate with ever more extravagant promises for his Great Society.
On the other side of the country, Ronald Reagan, a fading actor years removed from his Hollywood glory, gradually turns toward a new career in California politics. We watch him delivering speeches to crowds who are desperate for a new leader. And we see him wielding his well-honed instinct for timing, waiting for Johnson’s majestic promises to prove empty before he steps back into the spotlight, on his long journey toward the presidency.
From Johnson’s election in 1964, the greatest popular-vote landslide in American history, to the pivotal 1966 midterms, when Reagan burst forth onto the national stage, Landslide brings alive a country transformed—by riots, protests, the rise of television, the shattering of consensus—and the two towering personalities whose choices in those moments would reverberate through the country for decades to come.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
October 3rd, 2023
LBJ started the evil Vietnam War and the failed Great Society. Reagan was the 1st president to explode the national debt to appease the MIC war machine (don’t forget Star Wars.)
October 3rd, 2023
The collective illusion that a president can single-handedly kick-start a political zeitgeist, for good or for bad, remains strong, even under a president who is so senile he can’t string a sentence together.
October 3rd, 2023
@latt: the Vietnam war started about 1955, though that was really a continuation of the Indochina war that started in 1946. The US had troops there from 1959. LBJ became president in 1963. LBJ fought it, cetainly did not start it.
October 4th, 2023
“Opposites in politics and style, Johnson and Reagan shared a defining impulse: to set forth a grand story of America, a story in which he could be the hero” I mean, come on, if you’re narcissistic enough to run for president, you already think that. It’s all of them not just these two.
October 4th, 2023
yes, look up dein bein phu, that’s when we took over fighting “godless communists” from the french.
October 6th, 2023
@iconoclasthero
Johnson didn’t run for President, which I’m sure you know. Reagan lied and shat on everybody until there was no other choice but to give it to him.
July 26th, 2024
Another great share. Thanks Mojo!
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