Robert Dallek's Flawed Giant Lyndon Johnson

Some historical events are essential evidences that illustrate ideas of how the event begins and ends. Some historians take a time to write books and articles about important events to demonstrate profound details that readers may not know about. Many historians have constructed an event to their own ideological beliefs to infiltrate those beliefs to the readers. Moreover, a Presidential history or a biography topic can be constructed with a lot of interpretations that results in arguments and delegations between historians. Robert Dallek wrote Flawed Giant Lyndon Johnson and his time 1961-1973. The book contains a long (extensive) biography of Lyndon Johnson and his lifetime as a president. This book begins with Johnson’s early life, vice-president struggles, nomination as a …show more content…
Dallek described these events at the time Johnson wanted to run for the second term as a president. Dallek wrote President Johnson’s ambitions and his passions to legislate many laws of the society. In contrast, many of Johnson’s ambitions and characteristics are criticized by some historian as abuse, impatient, and an arrogant person. In the years between 1961 and 1965, American citizens were depending on a leader to bring stability to the country. President Kennedy was the leader that many historians described him as the “One”. Dallek described many good characteristics of Kennedy. America was filled with hopes and dreams. America thought Johnson Kennedy was the presidential that America needed. But, Lyndon Johnson despite how he became a president, he was the guy in charge of America’s hopes and dreams in 1963. According to Dallek, Johnson had good intentions and motivations to rebuild America as a powerful country. Although, President Johnson had good purposes to help America based on Dallek’s Lyndon Johnson’s biography, the biography can be interpreted Johnson as one of the worst president because of his ambitions