Autumn 2020 Catalogue

50 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 “In The End The President Must Decide” 50. JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines. The Vantage Point. Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969. New York, 1971. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $1250. Click for more info First edition of President Lyndon Johnson’s extensively illustrated memoirs, signed by him on a tipped-in leaf as issued by the First Edition Circle through Kroch’s & Brentano’s of Chicago, in scarce original dust jacket. “One of the most influential political figures of the last 50 years,” President Lyndon Johnson left behind one of the America’s most debated legacies ( Commentary ). Johnson’s informative memoir, The Vantage Point , was published only two years before his death and was partially ghostwritten by award-winning historian Doris Kearns, who had served as his special assistant in the White House and would later author her own critically praised history of the Johnson years. Book fine, dust jacket with slightest rubbing to extremities and usual toning. A near-fine signed copy.