Word: brammer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing shelf of Johnson literature, the man almost invariably emerges as a scarcely credible, one-dimensional character, all sinner or all saint. Probably the best portrayal of Johnson the man is in a work of fiction, Novelist William Brammer's The Gay Place. In it, he appears as Governor Arthur ("Goddam") Fenstemaker of Texas, an earthy, explosive, consummately skilled politician whose credo comes across in three lines of dialogue...
...Brammer was an aide to Johnson in his Senate days, and while the portrayal...
Fenstemaker is affectionate and admiring, Johnson and Brammer are no longer friends...
...PLACE, by William Brammer. Those who wonder if the energies of our ear-pulling President have been exaggerated in the press should turn to this roman a clef about Johnson. Ex-Aide Brammer has caught the voice, the idiom, the excesses, but most of all the protean vigor of the President...
...PLACE, by William Brammer. Hardly noticed when it was first published in 1961, this first novel by a sometime aide to Lyndon Johnson has become a top-selling paperback and a political conversation piece. Deservedly, for despite fictional camouflage it is an adroitly written roman a clef about L.B.J. in the days when he was ringmaster of the U.S. Senate...