Join Charleston Library Society and Buxton Books in virtually welcoming author Julia Sweig for a discussion on her newest book, Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

“In the spring of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a decision to make. Just months after moving into the White House under the worst of circumstances—following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy—he had to decide whether to run to win the presidency in his own right. He turned to his most reliable, trusted political strategist: his wife, Lady Bird Johnson. The strategy memo she produced for him, emblematic of her own political acumen and largely overlooked by biographers, is just one revealing example of how their marriage was truly a decades-long political partnership.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Julia Sweig is an author who focuses on Latin America and American foreign policy. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, the Nation, the National Interest, and in Brazil’s Folha de São Paulo. She holds a doctorate and master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University.

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