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Texas in the MorningThe Love Story of Madeleine Brown and President Lyndon Baines Johnson by Madeleine Duncan Brown |
Now, at last, the long suppressed true story of President Lyndon
Baines Johnson's secret lover and the story of his only son.
Madeleine Brown bore President Lyndon Johnson's son, Steven Mark
Brown. She and the young Senator, later President, maintained an
affair for 21 years through the period he was in the White House.
These were historic times when war, disorder and international
turmoil rent the world. Brown describes in riveting detail these
events passing through the lives of ordinary people, and those who
had to deal with crisis after crisis. In the midst of all the
tumult was the private life and love of a woman and her children
with no father. It is, to put it mildly, a great story.
But this is a poignant tale, one of live and an illegitimate son
whom Johnson could not publicly acknowledge. Above all it is a
romantic and erotic love story, the story of a young girl fallen in
love with a man who was determined to be President. Madeleine Brown,
a young advertising executive, got to know everyone who was anyone
in Dallas, and became convinced that they conspired, along with her
lover, to kill President Kennedy and go to war in Vietnam. Brown
tells it like it is and does not mince words. This is a bawdy,
lusty, and honest book and those who are in haste to sit in judgement
should stay away. Perhaps there has never been a book like
this to reach print and the public--an erotic and romantic love
story of a President and his mistress. Its truth is that we are
all human and all alike in our needs and failings.
This book sings. It has some of the greatest historical writing
in American literature. The long description, by someone who lived
in Dallas at the time, of the 24 hours before President Kennedy
came to Dallas, his assassination and the immediate aftermath beats
Jim Bishop by a mile. The tragedy and pathos in this story, along
with love and joy and great achievement, add up to an extraordinary
book of great power. After all, President Johnson, for all his
faults and for the possibility that he in some way participated in
various murders including that of President Kennedy, had an amazing
string of achievements in his presidency that no other president
might have duplicated. In a sense, he carried through Kennedy's
program where Kennedy might have had no chance to do so at all.
But soon Johnson's achievements in his own "Great Society" program
turned to bitter fruit, the joy of life and success soured, and
he died a bitter and tormented man. The horror of 22 November
1963 and the Vietnam war was forever to haunt him.
Madeleine Brown has been on some of the nation's most major TV
talk shows, including Sally, Geraldo, and Phil Donahue, sometimes
with her son Steven, long before this courageous book was printed.
Readers will be enthralled, and it is a "can't put it down" book.