Word: 36th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tale-or fable, or science fantasy, as it has been variously described-went into its 36th printing this year and in the best tradition of the children's classic, still sells 100 copies a week. That success will move into a new dimension late this spring as a movie version of A Wrinkle in Time finally enters production-an enterprise that has the author trying her hand for the first time at the art of the screenplay...
...highway czar Robert Moses, so unsettled its subject that he issued a rebuttal to Caro's many allegations. Despite objections, the book won a Pulitzer Prize. In The Path to Power, the 882-page first of three volumes on L.B.J., Caro argues, not always convincingly, that the 36th President illegally ran a blind trust fund from the Oval Office and that his avarice and cunning were rooted in childhood. If, as Emerson wrote, "geniuses have the shortest biographies," Caro has envisioned an L.B.J. who was hardly a candidate for Mensa. With a probable 1,600 pages left...
...CARO'S DISPLEASURE with Johnson's wheeling and dealing is indicative of a deeper ambivalence, an attitude that characterizes almost all public discussion of the 36th President. Caro, like many Americans, balks at the idea that desirable policy can be effected through morally questionable means. Yet one lesson modern politics offers is that good causes--like rural electrification or civil rights for Blacks--frequently are not converted into government action until their proponents adopt the methods of compromise and mutual advantage that their opponents have used all along. Lyndon Johnson may have connived with George and Herman Brown...
...book, like so much else about Lyndon Johnson, was making people angry. Robert A. Caro, whose awesomely detailed, 1,246-page biography of Builder-Bureaucrat Robert Moses, The Power Broker, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975, has been toiling for seven years on a three-part study of the 36th President. Excerpts from the first volume, which takes Johnson from his hardscrabble beginnings up to his World War II service, began appearing a year ago in the Atlantic Monthly. In one such episode, Caro disclosed that Johnson had for years accepted "envelopes stuffed with cash" from backers, even when...
...history record that in 1967, at the height of the Viet Nam War, President Lyndon Johnson was visited several times in the White House by God. As Ronnie Dugger reports in this scrupulous, generally disapproving account of the 36th President's rise to power, the Creator would appear around 2 or 3 a.m. when Johnson received his daily reports from the U.S. embassy in Saigon. Dugger does not disclose what the Commander in Chief was told by his Commander in Chief, but he does recount that on one occasion Johnson "prayed on his knees for an hour...