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...believes the central fact of Johnson's life was his just for power. The author's careful research strips away the elaborate web of myth and half-truth that Johnson and his loyalists constructed to obscure his early life, evoking the heart-rending isolation and desperate poverty of his boyhood in the Hill Country of Texas. Through in-depth interviews with relatives and boyhood friends of the President, many of whom had never before talked with journalists or scholars. Caro create a picture of a boy seeking to escape early deprivations by any means possible--a young man obsessed with...
...Cannon, the author of a recent biography of President Reagan, told a Kennedy School, of Government audience last night that in order to understand Reagan's attitudes toward tax cuts and other policies, he needed to learn more about his boyhood, not his political career...
...classic American success story, De Lorean's beginnings were appropriately humble. A Depression boyhood on the working-class east side of Detroit...
...with his Muslim counterparts. During negotiations for the evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organization from West Beirut last summer, Amin met quietly with Abu Iyad, the P.L.O.'s military commander. Born in the predominantly Christian village of Bikfaya, in the mountains east of Beirut, Amin was groomed from boyhood to become a political leader. He attended Jesuit-run elementary and secondary schools, and went on to receive a law degree in 1965 from the St. Joseph University in Beirut. When...
...sister Goldie." But with all honor to Goldie's memory, this does not address the full question of Carson's appeal. In a fleet and surprisingly touching documentary called Johnny Goes Home, aired last February and well worth repeating, Carson is seen revisiting many of his boyhood haunts, including his high school, and being greeted with a surprise birthday party during half time at a Friday-night football game. Carson wipes away some tears and says to his family, "You're blowing my image here. I'm cruel and aloof, don't you know that...