How Johnson and Reagan Shook Up American Politics

Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan were opposites in politics and style, but they shared a defining impulse: to set forth a grand story of America with him as a hero. In the tumultuous days after the Kennedy assassination, Johnson and Reagan each seized the chance to offer the country a new vision for the future. Jonathan Darman tells how these two men changed American politics forever. In Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America, Darman shows that, by promising the impossible, Johnson and Reagan jointly dismantled the American tradition of consensus in politics and ushered in a new era of division.