Lays out evidence for the theory that Lyndon Baines Johnson played an active role in plotting the death of John F. Kennedy.

"In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin draws upon...

"These are some of the things you will learn by reading this book: After almost sixty years, it is time for the world to know the truth behind the death of JFK. If Kennedy had won reelection in 1964, there would not have been an American Vietnam War. You will learn things about Lyndon B. Johnson that you would not believe were possible. John F. Kennedy's assassination started a deep distrust that Americans have with their government that continues...

LBJ's towering political skills and his ambitious slate of liberal legislation are the stuff of legend: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and environmental reform. But what happened after the bills passed? One man could not and did not go it alone. Joshua Zeitz reanimates the creative and contentious atmosphere inside Johnson's White House as a talented and energetic group of advisers made...

Using transcripts only recently made public, this program pieces together the 24-hour period following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The timeline reveals new information about the death of the president and the transfer of power to his successor, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.

"Zelizer takes the full measure of the entire story [of Johnson's liberal agenda] in all its epic sweep. Before Johnson, Kennedy tried and failed to achieve many of these advances. Our practiced understanding is that this was an unprecedented liberal hour in America, a moment, after Kennedy's death, when the seas parted and Johnson could simply stroll through to victory. As Zelizer shows, this view is off-base: in many respects America was even more...

A chronicle of Lyndon B. Johnson's life from 1958 to 1964, from his presidency campaign to his time as vice president under Kennedy and his eventual becoming of president in the wake of JFK's assassination. A latest entry in the award-winning series that includes The Path to Power profiles the 36th President's volatile relationships with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, describes JFK's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint and recounts his accomplishments...