A White House Diary

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This article is about Lady Bird Johnson's 1970 memoir. For Jimmy Carter's 2010 memoir, see White House Diary.

A White House Diary is a 1970 memoir by Lady Bird Johnson.

Writing and publication

Lady Bird Johnson regularly made

Holt, Rinehart and Winston.[3]

Reception

A review in

The Vantage Point, for its insight into the American presidency.[3] Jean Stafford in The New York Review of Books considered the book to have a "lubberly vocabulary" and said Johnson could instead have "stuck to her homey colloquialisms". Stafford thought the book's importance was "questionable" because Johnson didn't go into much detail about the political side of the presidency and included little gossip. Stafford concluded that "It is a harmless book, but it is very long."[1]

James Brady, writing for The Washington Post, called the book "a simply splendid account", feeling that "there never has been, and perhaps never will be, such an intimate glance of power in its private moments." He concluded that the book was "extraordinary".[4] A reviewer in The New York Times reviewed the book favorably, noting that it was "intensely personal" and considered it to have "fascinating" details.[2] Dorothy Rabinowitz in Commentary described the book as "a full, and disturbing, replay of the nation's troubles [during Johnson's term as president]."[5]

References

  1. ^
    ISSN 0028-7504
    . Retrieved 2021-03-23.
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    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2021-03-23.
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    JSTOR 1861453
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  4. ProQuest 147902993
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  5. ^ Rabinowitz, Dorothy (1971). "A White House Diary, by Lady Bird Johnson (Book Review)". Commentary. New York City: 108–110.
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