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Blurb: Johnson's was a larger-than-life personality, and the man had so much energy and so many frying pans in the fire all at once, that his life is immensely interesting. Unlike his successor, Richard Nixon - who was mainly dark, Johnson was equal parts dark and light. The man had the highest highs and could get down into the lowest lows. This helps to make the recollections of the people that knew him to be all the more colorful. The reader learns a great many details about Johnson - his eating habits, private conversations, even - unfortunately - some of his bathroom habits. That is the strength of this book: reading often unvarnished accounts of the time that people spent with Johnson.
Miller is particularly good at including people who knew Johnson before he was famous. There are many oral histories from family members and childhood friends and acquaintances, really helping to paint a portrait of the time and place where Johnson grew up and how the Hill Country of Central Texas shaped him. This continues when Johnson first moves to Washington, D.C. in 1931 and later runs for Congress and is elected.