Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1908-1960 by Robert Dallek (Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles)
In Lone Star Rising, Robert Dallek offers 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 of a two-volume biography follows Johnson's life from his childhood to his election as vice-president under Kennedy.