By midmorning at the L.B.J. Ranch, the winter-paled body of a weary man was slung ... the Civil War, Lyndon Johnson would in fact be the first bona fide Southerner in the White House in 110 ...

During his 1948 Senate campaign, Lyndon Johnson (hat raised ... and a tool of big business and big labor besides, but Johnson was a young man—why, virtually a war hero!—who would lead ...