About the Program
From the 17th annual Texas Book Festival on the Capitol Grounds in Austin, Texas, a discussion of President Lyndon Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, featuring Mark Updegrove, Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency and Michael Gillette, Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History. The event is moderated by author Carol Dawson.
Mark Updegrove
Mark Updegrove is the author of Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House and Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis. He is the director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library & Museum.
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Michael Gillette
Michael Gillette is the author of Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History. He is the executive director of Humanities Texas and the former director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library's Oral History Program.
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