396 pages, illustrations, map, new un-read copy. "In a thorough account of the period from late 1967 to LBJ's decision not to run for re-election, Vandiver offers a sweeping synthesis of the scholarship on Johnson's war presidency, along with new insights culled from numerous and extensive interviews and immersion in the primary documents housed in archives around the country. This controversial presentation proposes to show what Johnson knew, felt, feared, and tried to do, thus offering a new view of Johnson-as he likely saw himself."