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The Kennedy Assassination - 24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day As President (2009)

by Steven M. Gillon(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1410424790 (ISBN13: 9781410424792)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Thorndike Press

review 1: Really enjoyable, if you could use that word in connection with this subject. Reads like a fast-paced thriller -- with entire chapters covering time spans of as little as 15 minutes. Also superbly researched with a strong and successful effort at achieving balance, including presenting the reader with contradictory evidence along with a judicious weighing and balancing of that evidence.As the title indicates, the book focuses on the President Johnson's first day in office, starting with being thrown to the ground in his limo by his alert secret service protection and ending with a series of photo-op meetings with his team in the Oval Office and what appears from the pictures to be the Roosevelt Room. In between, Johnson has to make rapid judgments under enormous uncertaint... morey -- while balancing the need to project continuity with the importance of not appearing greedy or ambitious to a nation deeply in mourning for Kennedy.
review 2: I have read literally dozens of books on the Kennedy Assassination. This is the first book that concentrates solely on the transfer of power from Kennedy to Lyndon Johnson and all of the drama and miscommunication between the Kennedy and Johnson camps. A lot of this drama was known before. LBJ was not viewed by the Kennedy camp as a worthy successor to JFK. The feelings between Robert Kennedy and Johnson have been covered in other books as well, but this book concentrates only on the 24-hour period from when the shots were first fired in Dallas. RFK comes off badly so fans of the late president's brother may want to avoid reading it. less

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