Lady bird johnson biography book

I don't usually rate books with 1 or 2 stars, because I don't usually finish books I don't like and don't feel it is fair to rate them if I don't finish them.

In this case, however, I wanted the information about Lady Bird Johnson in preparation for reading Robert Caro's biography of LBJ. That being said, there were parts of this book that I liked, but overall it was disappointing.

I thought she did a good job in telling Lady Bird's experience of the assassination of JFK and her whistle-stop tour through the South in preparation for the 1964 election. However for most of the book, rather than a telling of Lady Bird's story, it seemed to be more of a platform for the author to give her opinion of Lady Bird and LBJ.

And the opinions didn't appear at the end of the narrative as a conclusion, but were interspersed throughout resulting in constant repetition of the same ideas - LBJ was a weak, egomaniacal, womanizer, and Lady Bird was