An unfinished love story a personal history of the 1960s
(2024)

Nonfiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/973.92092/GOODWIN,D

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Details

PUBLISHED
[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024
©2024
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION

867 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781420515312, 1420515314, 9781420515312
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Coming of age -- "A sort of dead end" -- Aboard the "Caroline" -- A Pandora's box of cigars -- The supreme generalist -- Kaleidoscope -- Thirteen LBJs -- "And we shall overcome" -- The never-ending resignation -- Friendship, loyalty, and duty -- Crosswinds of fate -- Endings and beginnings -- Our talisman

"Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. Dick was one of the young men of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier, and he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Doris was a White House Fellow and worked directly for Lyndon Johnson, later assisting on his memoir. The Goodwins' last great adventure involved opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia Dick had saved for more than fifty years. The voyage of remembrance revived the hope that the youth of today will carry forward this love story with America"--

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