historical primitive looking for book about Lyndon Johnson

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=241x968

Oh my.

I'm wandering around the dark crooks-and-crannies of Skins's island today.

GRLMGC  (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-12-07 05:19 PM
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Robert Caro
   
Has anybody heard when he might be releasing the final (possibly) volume of the Years of Lyndon Johnson?

franksolich'll speak his piece at the end of the bonfire.

Lithos  Lead Moderator Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-18-07 03:45 AM
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1. No, should be good though.
   
Side question, any one read Ina Caro's book? (The Road from the Past: Travelling through History in France). If so, what did you think?

NoPasaran  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-21-07 10:43 PM
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2. I read it some years ago
   
I remember it being an interesting look at history expressed through architecture.

pscot  (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 11:56 AM
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3. What do you think about the LBJ biography so far?
   
I haven't read it yet, but I saw a review that speculated as to why Caro would choose to do a biography of a man he seems to really dislike. Does that seem like a valid critique?

Okay.

Robert Caro is a well-know Hater of Lyndon Johnson; I've read all of his books, and the guy writing about Lyndon Johnson is like Adolph Hitler writing a history of the Jews in Europe.

We all know the primitives Hate Lyndon Johnson, even though Lyndon Johnson made existence possible for the primitives; all of his wildly-extravagant and utterly-wasteful social spending.

Like that quagmire we've been mired in for more than 44 years, the War on Poverty; the war with no light at the end of the tunnel, the war without end, the war costing us much in valuable resources to no good.

I think the primitives should be lashed for their ingratitude to Lyndon Johnson.

In fact, I think that every year, on the anniversary of the birth of Lyndon Johnson, the primitives should get together at some temple in San Francisco, to hoist a statue onto a sedan-chair, carrying it on their shoulders while they circle the temple, chanting and oooming and aaahing and tossing rose-petals in its path.

The statue made of solid gold of course, from the tithes of the primitives to the memory of he who made their existence possible.

And then before walking the statue back into the temple, every primitive should bow and kiss the golden ass of the statue.

The statue of course being a Guatama Buddha-like depiction of Lyndon Johnson, the big belly and all that.

[Lord Undies]

I will never get over how I was standing in front of and listening to the animatron of President Johnson in the LBJ Library in Austin when I heard the news Barry Goldwater had just died.  It was my first and only visit to the library.

What were the chances? 

[JohnnyReb]

Get the Cliff Notes version.....Johnson was a liar, a crook and a drunk.

[franksolich]

Get the Cliff Notes version.....Johnson was a liar, a crook and a drunk.

Well now, one does have to admit that Lyndon Johnson was the best Democrat president of the past 50 years.

Not that he had much competition, though.

[stickyboot]

Get the Cliff Notes version.....Johnson was a liar, a crook and a drunk.

You forgot womanizer.

[BlueStateSaint]

Get the Cliff Notes version.....Johnson was a liar, a crook and a drunk.

You forgot womanizer.

To some DUmb****s, being a "womanizer" is taboo.  Most of them prefer "manizer."