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Book Johnson Family Album

Download or read book Johnson Family Album written by Lynn Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Family Album

Download or read book A Family Album written by Rebekah Baines Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of President Lyndon B. Johnson's family history gathered by his mother, prepared as a Christmas present for her son.

Book Van Johnson s Hollywood

Download or read book Van Johnson s Hollywood written by Evie Wynn Johnson and published by Antique Collector's Club. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Endpages: A selection of movie posters from Van Johnson's many films for MGM, including two of his most famous, Brigadoon and The Siege at Red River."

Book A Family Album

Download or read book A Family Album written by Rebekah Baines Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of President Lyndon B. Johnson's family history gathered by his mother, prepared as a Christmas present for her son.

Book Photo Album of Family Photographs Kept by Margaret Johnson 1901 1916

Download or read book Photo Album of Family Photographs Kept by Margaret Johnson 1901 1916 written by Edward Johnson Collection and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Through the Years with William A  Johnson

Download or read book Through the Years with William A Johnson written by William Arthur Johnson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Johnson (b.ca.1747) married Elizabeth Harrison, whose brother, Benjamin Harrison, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the father of William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), the ninth President of the United States. Johnson descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, California and elsewhere. Includes autobiography of William Arthur Johnson (b.1883), the author.

Book Lone Star Rising

Download or read book Lone Star Rising written by Robert Dallek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-15 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other great figures of 20th-century American politics, Lyndon Johnson defies easy understanding. An unrivaled master of vote swapping, back room deals, and election-day skulduggery, he was nevertheless an outspoken New Dealer with a genuine commitment to the poor and the underprivileged. With aides and colleagues he could be overbearing, crude, and vindictive, but at other times shy, sophisticated, and magnanimous. Perhaps columnist Russell Baker said it best: Johnson "was a character out of a Russian novel...a storm of warring human instincts: sinner and saint, buffoon and statesman, cynic and sentimentalist." But Johnson was also a representative figure. His career speaks volumes about American politics, foreign policy, and business in the forty years after 1930. As Charles de Gaulle said when he came to JFK's funeral: Kennedy was America's mask, but this man Johnson is the country's real face. In Lone Star Rising, Robert Dallek, winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his study of Franklin D. Roosevelt, now turns to this fascinating "sinner and saint" to offer a brilliant, definitive portrait of a great American politician. Based on seven years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this first book in a two-volume biography follows Johnson's life from his childhood on the banks of the Pedernales to his election as vice-president under Kennedy. We see Johnson, the twenty-three-year-old aide to a pampered millionaire Representative, become a de facto Congressman, and at age twenty-eight the country's best state director of the National Youth Administration. We see Johnson, the "human dynamo," first in the House and then in the Senate, whirl his way through sixteen- and eighteen-hour days, talking, urging, demanding, reaching for influence and power, in an uncommonly successful congressional career. Dallek pays full due to Johnson's failings--his obsession with being top dog, his willingness to cut corners, and worse, to get there-- but he also illuminates Johnson's sheer brilliance as a politician, the high regard in which key members of the New Deal, including FDR, held him, and his genuine concern for minorities and the downtrodden. No president in American history is currently less admired than Lyndon Johnson. Bitter memories of Vietnam have sent Johnson's reputation into free fall, and recent biographies have painted him as a scoundrel who did more harm than good. Lone Star Rising attempts to strike a balance. It does not neglect the tawdry side of Johnson's political career, including much that is revealed for the first time. But it also reminds us that Lyndon Johnson was a man of exceptional vision, who from early in his career worked to bring the South into the mainstream of American economic and political life, to give the disadvantaged a decent chance, and to end racial segregation for the well-being of the nation.

Book The Johnson Family Album

Download or read book The Johnson Family Album written by S. C. Doak and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Johnson, so nof Edward Johnson and Ann Clayton, was born in 1801 in Kinston-upon- Hull, England. They emigrated in 1818 and settled first in New York and later in Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Bacon (d. 1834) in 1825. They had two children. He married Mary Winder (1814-1877) in 1837. They had ten children.

Book LBJ

    LBJ

    Book Details:
  • Author : Randall Woods
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-11-01
  • ISBN : 1416593314
  • Pages : 1043 pages

Download or read book LBJ written by Randall Woods and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost forty years, the verdict on Lyndon Johnson's presidency has been reduced to a handful of harsh words: tragedy, betrayal, lost opportunity. Initially, historians focused on the Vietnam War and how that conflict derailed liberalism, tarnished the nation's reputation, wasted lives, and eventually even led to Watergate. More recently, Johnson has been excoriated in more personal terms: as a player of political hardball, as the product of machine-style corruption, as an opportunist, as a cruel husband and boss. In LBJ, Randall B. Woods, a distinguished historian of twentieth-century America and a son of Texas, offers a wholesale reappraisal and sweeping, authoritative account of the LBJ who has been lost under this baleful gaze. Woods understands the political landscape of the American South and the differences between personal failings and political principles. Thanks to the release of thousands of hours of LBJ's White House tapes, along with the declassification of tens of thousands of documents and interviews with key aides, Woods's LBJ brings crucial new evidence to bear on many key aspects of the man and the politician. As private conversations reveal, Johnson intentionally exaggerated his stereotype in many interviews, for reasons of both tactics and contempt. It is time to set the record straight. Woods's Johnson is a flawed but deeply sympathetic character. He was born into a family with a liberal Texas tradition of public service and a strong belief in the public good. He worked tirelessly, but not just for the sake of ambition. His approach to reform at home, and to fighting fascism and communism abroad, was motivated by the same ideals and based on a liberal Christian tradition that is often forgotten today. Vietnam turned into a tragedy, but it was part and parcel of Johnson's commitment to civil rights and antipoverty reforms. LBJ offers a fascinating new history of the political upheavals of the 1960s and a new way to understand the last great burst of liberalism in America. Johnson was a magnetic character, and his life was filled with fascinating stories and scenes. Through insights gained from interviews with his longtime secretary, his Secret Service detail, and his closest aides and confidants, Woods brings Johnson before us in vivid and unforgettable color.

Book Our Family Album

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Musser
  • Publisher : JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING
  • Release : 2019-10
  • ISBN : 9780861967414
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Our Family Album written by Charles Musser and published by JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary counterpart to Charles Musser and Maria Threese Serana's documentary Our Family Album includes brief essays by those involved in its production as well as an annotated script with selected images from the film. The book, like the documentary, reflects on the construction, nature and meaning of family photography. In an era of globalization, the filmmakers move back and forth between two countries whose relationship was forged by war and a half century of colonization - the Philippines and the United States. How they and their son negotiate their lives between these two cultures is some of the work done by and through the family album. This intimate portrait moves outward to engage scholars, archivists, and fellow filmmakers who have different perspectives and even conflicting views on the nature of family photography and how they deploy it in their personal and professional lives. Commentators include Paolo Cherchi Usai, Lorna Johnson, Nick Deocampo, Vanessa Toulmin, Ashish Avikunthak and Thomas Elsaesser. Reimagines The Family of Man for the 21st Century.

Book LIFE

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966-12-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1966-12-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Van Johnson

Download or read book Van Johnson written by Ronald L. Davis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Van Johnson's dazzling smile, shock of red hair, and suntanned freckled cheeks made him a movie-star icon. Among teenaged girls in the 1940s, he was popularized as the bobbysoxer's heartthrob. He won the nation's heart, too, by appearing in a series of blockbuster war films—A Guy Named Joe, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Weekend at the Waldorf, and Battleground. Perennially a leading man opposite June Allyson, Esther Williams, Judy Garland, and Janet Leigh, he rose to fame radiating the sunshine image Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer chose for him, that of an affable, wholesome boy-next-door. Legions of adoring moviegoers were captivated by this idealized persona that generated huge box-office profits for the studio. However, Johnson's off-screen life was not so sunny. His mother had rejected him in childhood, and he lived his adult life dealing with sexual ambivalence. A marriage was arranged with the ex-wife of his best friend, the actor Keenan Wynn. During the waning years of Hollywood's Golden Age, she and Johnson lived amid the glow of Hollywood's A-crowd. Yet their private life was charged with tension and conflict. Although morose and reclusive by nature, Johnson maintained a happy-go-lucky façade, even among co-workers who knew him as a congenial, dedicated professional. Once free of the golden-boy stereotype, he became a respected actor assigned stellar roles in such acclaimed films as State of the Union, Command Decision, The Last Time I Saw Paris, and The Caine Mutiny. With the demise of the big studios, Johnson returned to the stage, where he had begun his career as a song-and-dance man. After this, he appeared frequently in television shows, performed in nightclubs, and became the legendary darling of older audiences on the dinner playhouse circuit. Johnson (1916-2008) spent his post-Hollywood years living in solitude in New York City. This solid, thoroughly researched biography traces the career and influence of a favorite star and narrates a fascinating, sometimes troubled life story.

Book A Family Album

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Randall
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2013-11-26
  • ISBN : 1491838515
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book A Family Album written by Patricia Randall and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FAMILY ALBUM follows three generations of the Kilmer family. Thea, the matriarch, is a remarkable woman who guides and loves her family from the late 19th century up to the mid 20th. Several members of the family as well as some collateral characters are heard telling their stories. They live in a small town in south central Kansas.

Book The Family Album  and Repository of Amusement and Instruction

Download or read book The Family Album and Repository of Amusement and Instruction written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mr and Mrs Johnson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johnson's Publications
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-06-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Mr and Mrs Johnson written by Johnson's Publications and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr & Mrs Johnson GuestBook Perfect Gifts for Family, Wedding Guest Book for Family and Friends to Sign : Great Gift for Johnson Family 110 pages total Soft paperback cover Perfect size (8.5 x 8.5) Looking for Guest Book For Johnson Family? This Cute Mr & Mrs Johnson GuestBook is a Great Signing Book Gift For Johnson Family

Book Material Literacy in 18th Century Britain

Download or read book Material Literacy in 18th Century Britain written by Serena Dyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers. It brings new attention to eighteenth-century craftswomen and men with its focus on the material knowledge possessed not only by professional artisans and amateur makers, but also by skilled consumers. This edited collection gathers together a group of interdisciplinary scholars working in the fields of art history, history, literature, and museum studies to unearth the tactile and tacit knowledge that underpinned fashion, tailoring, and textile production. It invites us into the workshops, drawing rooms, and backrooms of a broad range of creators, and uncovers how production and tacit knowledge extended beyond the factories and machines which dominate industrial histories. This book illuminates, for the first time, the material literacies learnt, enacted, and understood by British producers and consumers. The skills required for sewing, embroidering, and the textile arts were possessed by a large proportion of the British population: men, women and children, professional and amateur alike. Building on previous studies of shoppers and consumption in the period, as well as narratives of manufacture, these essays document the multiplicity of small producers behind Britain's consumer revolution, reshaping our understanding of the dynamics between making and objects, consumption and production. It demonstrates how material knowledge formed an essential part of daily life for eighteenth-century Britons. Craft technique, practice, and production, the contributors show, constituted forms of tactile languages that joined makers together, whether they produced objects for profit or pleasure.

Book A Dragon s Family Album II

Download or read book A Dragon s Family Album II written by Thea Harrison and published by Teddy Harrison LLC. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dragon’s Family Album II: Dragos Goes to Washington, Pia Does Hollywood, Liam Takes Manhattan