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Title: Taking Charge by Michael R. Beschloss ISBN: 0-671-04647-0 Publisher: Audioworks Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (13 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: More un-American Council on Foreogn Relations Propaganda
Comment: I ranked this book with one star only because zero stars is not an option. The Author, Michael Beschloss is a member of the super-evil Council on Foreign Relations (CFR,) a secret society founded by the Rockefellers for the sole benefit of the Rockefellers and their small cadre of super-rich treasonous lap dogs who control scads of other secret societies under the guise of tax-exempt foundations that collectively, persistently, even feverishly work toward that sacrosanct goal that despots and tyrants like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, the Rockefellers, John McCloy, Prescott Bush, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry have sought to enforce upon mankind for centuries; globalization under a New World Order absolutely controlled by the Rockefellers and their cohorts; a world order ruled by one world government under which the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and U.S. sovereignty would cease to exist!
Like the Warren Report, this work covers only what the CFR wants Americans to believe on the subject. Americans are supposed to naively believe that nothing else of consequence can be found on those tapes by other researchers. This is utter whitewash. Don't waste a penny on this un-American trash. If you love America and cherish the freedoms guaranteed to you in the Bill of Rights, invest the money you would spend on this propaganda in whatever it takes to ensure that these monsters are stopped once and for all.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Editing and Footnotes Make it an Interesting Book
Comment: I have general interest in the Presidency so I was interested in this book to see what the unedited / un-spun conversations in the Oval office are really like. I was not disappointed. We get the whole range of day to day items that are covered by LBJ, from arranging to get free haircuts for his family and inexpensive western clothing for his staff to setting up the Warren Commission and pushing his civil rights bills. The items that I found the most interesting were the conversations around the assassination of JFK and the Vietnam War. The calls with J. E. Hover in the days after the event are interesting to the point of gripping. You get true emotion from the conversations.
What made the book really work was the great editing and very helpful lead comments and footnotes by the author. I was somewhat concerned that I would get lost in the less then precise conversations between familiar people, but the footnotes add all the clarity one would need to understand who is speaking and about what. I also found it very interesting to see LBJ working the phones; he does everything from out right [bottom] kissing to demanding. All of it is surrounded by his down home Texas language that seams to bring the office of the President a little closer to home.
For the general political reader like myself there were a few slow spots in the book, talking about minor political scandals of the day was not interesting to me, but overall these are few and do not take away from the overall book. I would not suggest this to be your first book on LBJ or the politics around the Vietnam War, but if you are interested in the topics you will not be disappointed.
Rating: 4
Summary: All too human
Comment: A marvel this book is. LBJ in his outsize character comes through, its flaws and brilliance both. The folksy and earthy Texan and the finetuned DC-powermachine exist next to one another, integrated in this incomparable person. You live with him through his trial and triumph after the assasination of JFK and through his madddening insecurity that would destroy his preseidency in the end.
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Title: Reaching for Glory : Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965 by Michael R. Beschloss ISBN: 0743508416 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro ISBN: 0679729453 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 by Michael R. Beschloss ISBN: 0684810271 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Presidents : From Washington to Bush - Every President In Depth by Michael R. Beschloss ISBN: 0743475003 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 2) by Robert A. Caro ISBN: 067973371X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 06 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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