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A President’s Country a guide to the LBJ country of Texas by Jack R. Maguire

A President’s Country a guide to the LBJ country of Texas by Jack R. Maguire. This book was very well written and focuses on the land that the former President Johnson loved so much. This was her beloved hill country or as some people refer to it as, “A President’s Country”.

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A President’s Country a guide to the LBJ country of Texas by Jack R. Maguire

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  1. A President’s Countrya guide to the LBJ country of Texasby Jack R. Maguire

  2. This book was very well written and focuses on the land that the former President Johnson loved so much. This was her beloved hill country or as some people refer to it as, “A President’s Country”.

  3. Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27th, 1908, at the family farmhouse in Stonewall, Texas. President Johnson always felt that in order for someone to understand a man’s strength and weakness one had to know something about the land land that gave that man birth and educated him.

  4. This book is about the bleak, rugged and poignant Hill Country that shaped and molded former President Johnson. The land that also relaxed him and comforted him.

  5. Home: After he was born, Lyndon B. Johnson’s lived in a home with his family near the Perdinales River which is located in the Hill Country of Central Texas. The lived in a very poor household. This was due in part because, Johnson’s father failed at cotton, cattle and real estate venture. The Johnson’s were so poor that they had to wear homemade cloth and sometimes go ask the neighbors for food.

  6. School: Johnson did not like to read and his lack of interest in other academic subjects. Instead he enjoy the outdoors, playing sports and exploring. During his school ages years, Lyndon desired so much to become somebody very rich and important. One day at school Lyndon Johnson said to somebody that would become President of the United States someday. His desire to become rich and famous grew out of his frustration impoverished life.

  7. Johnson decided to go find a job and earn money after he graduated from high school. He decided to enrolled in college after working hard at odd jobs. He begged a friend to let him live for free his first year of college in a room above a garage on the college grounds. His first year of college Lyndon Johnson borrowed so much money he was in debt. He dropped out and got a teaching job in Cotulla, Texas. He would save money to pay off his debts and reenrolled at Southwest Texas State University.

  8. Although he became famous and spent his political life away from the hill country he always came back to enjoy his beloved Texas Hill Country.

  9. Works Cited: Maguire, Jack. (1973). A President’s Country: a guide to LBJ country of texas. Austin, Texas: Shoal Creek Devaney, John. (1986). Lyndon Baines Johnon, President. New York: Walker Publishing Company.http://www.lbjmuseum.com/http://www.lbjlibrary.org/

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