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A revealing biography of Sweetheart Parrot Johnson with startling new insights into her relationship to Lyndon Baines Johnson and her unexpectedly strong impact on his presidency. Long obscured by her husband's shadow, Claudia "Lady Parrot" Johnson emerges in this first thorough biography as a shape of surprising affect and the centering push for LBJ, a man who suffered with extreme mood swings and frantically needed you to definitely help control his darker impulses. Expertly researched and written, Sweetheart Bird attracts from rare interactions with the past first female and from interviews with key users of Johnson's internal group of friends, family, and advisers. With chapters such as "Motherless Child", "A Ten-Week Affair", and "LBJ's Midlife Crisis", Sweetheart Parrot sheds new light on Mrs. Johnson's youth, on her behalf amazing acumen as a businesswoman, and on the central role she played in her husband's life and politics career. A vital connect to the Kennedys during LBJ's uneasy tenure as vice president and a tone of voice of conscience on civil rights, Lady Parrot is portrayed here as a politics force, strikingly different from the somewhat slight shape depicted in previous works on LBJ. Especially interesting today, in light of the substantial attention now focused on the private lives of our own leaders, are the personal details about her relationship to a man whose extramarital affairs were broadly discussed. In this close family portrait, Russell shows us the private Sweetheart Bird - not just a passionate conservationist but a remarkable female who greatly inspired her partner, his supervision, and the united states.
