LBJ : architect of American ambition / Randall B. Woods

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Roots -- Growing up -- College -- The secretary -- Lady Bird and the NYA -- Congress -- Pappy -- War -- Truman and the coming of the cold war -- Coke -- A populist gentlemen's club -- Leader -- Passing the Lord's prayer -- Back from the edge -- Containing the red-hots: from Dulles to the Dixie Association -- Lost in space -- 1960 -- Camelot meets Mr. Cornpone -- Hanging on -- Interregnum: death and resurrection -- "Kennedy was too conservative for me" -- Free at last -- Containment at home and abroad -- "The countryside of the world" -- Bobby -- Barry -- A new bill of rights -- The crux of the matter -- Daunted courage -- Castro's and Kennedy's shadows -- A city on the hill -- Balancing act -- Divisions -- Civil war -- Battling Dr. Strangelove -- The holy land -- Backlash -- Of hawks and doves, vultures and chickens -- Tet -- A midsummer nightmare -- Touching the void.