Taking Charge brings you into the room with an Amercian political legend, still hated and revered a quarter century after his death. We hear Lyndon Johnson as he schemes and blusters, rewards, and punishes, and reveals a bedrock core of unshakable political beliefs.
The only President to record his private conversations from his first day in office, LBJ ordered these tapes locked in a vault until at least the year 2023. But now they have been unsealed, providing a close-up look at a President taking power such as we have never before - from John F. Kennedy's murder in November 1963 to Johnson's campaign for a landslide victory.
Taking Charge is filled with revelations about the full-blooded texan behind the public image. You will hear LBJ:
- Revealing his self-doubts and personal anguish over the responsibilities of the presidency
- Receiving the frank criticism of his wife, Lady Bird Johnson
- Staking his presidency on a revolutionary civil rights bill
- Scuttling Robert Kennedy's drive to be his Vice President
- Using the Tonkin Gulf attack to expand the American beachhead in southeast Asia
- Unveiling his private, tortured early doubts that we could ever win a war in Vietnam
Taking Charge gives us an unprecedented look into a crucial presidency that continues to shape our lives today. In LBJ's own words, it is history "with the bark off."
Robert Dallek
Narrated By : Richard McGonagle
Publisher : Hachette Audio
Runtime : 9 hours
Categories : Historical Royalty and Heads of State American 20th Century Biographical
Our Price : $42.98 $30.25
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Alistair Cooke
Narrated By : Alistair Cooke and Matt Frei
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Biographical 20th Century American Biographical
Our Price : $17.99
A selection of Alistair Cooke’s finest radio Letters in chronological order from his earliest broadcasts. See full description...
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Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss
Narrated By : Harry Chase
Publisher : Hachette Audio
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : Military American 20th Century World
Our Price : $29.98 $20.98
At the outset of the Vietnam War an experimental unit was created; Tiger Force. This material is an account of how badly that experiment went wrong... See full description...
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Peter Hart
Narrated By : Tim Pigott-Smith
Publisher : Orion Publishing Group
Runtime : 6 hours 30 minutes
Categories : World 20th Century Military
Our Price : $16.99
The Somme is an incredible documentary detailing the exact events and conditions endured by the Allied forces, an absolutely outstanding piece. See full description...
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John Cornwell
Narrated By : Simon Prebble
Publisher : Listen & Live
Runtime : 5 hours
Categories : 20th Century World
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Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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