President #34, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #8 It’s Been Said That People Liked This Guy When I was a kid in the 1970s, the 1950s were considered a cool time. “Happy Days” and “Laverne & Shirley” dominated television. Coming out of the turbulent 1960s (a decade glamorized in much different way from the 1950s), the 1950s [...]
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President #36, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #11 In Treatment Lyndon Baines Johnson was President for just a little over five years. However, if you try to read some of the biographies that have written about him, you may feel like you need five years to get through all of them. Robert Caro has written three volumes [...]
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