The Vantage Point: Perspectives on the Presidency 1963-1969.
"Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance": First Edition of The Vantage Point: Perspectives on the Presidency; inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson on an official White House bookplate to American Congressman Jim Wright; With a photograph of Johnson in the Oval Office
The Vantage Point: Perspectives on the Presidency 1963-1969.
JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines.
Item Number: 121772
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
First edition of President Johnson’s autobiography. Octavo, original red cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 72 pages of photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Lyndon Baines Johnson on official White House bookplate affixed to the half-title page, “To Jim Wright from his friend Lyndon B. Johnson.” The recipient, American Congressman Jim Wright, represented Texas’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1955 to 1989 and served as the 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David November. Jacket photograph of Johnson by Y. R. Okamoto. Accompanied by a matted black and white photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office.
In The Vantage Point, one of the most complex and fascinating men to occupy the Presidency of the United States describes his years in the White House. In the books preface, Johnson states: "I make no pretense of having written a complete and definitive history of my Presidency. I have tried, rather, to review that period from a President's personal and political philosophy, a President's experience and knowledge...and a President's response to the demands that were made of him." The book was published in the same year that the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum opened on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.
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