Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of lyndon johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael beschloss, in, said that it "Succeeds brilliantly." Called it "Rock solid" And hailed it as "Invaluable." And ...Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of lyndon johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael beschloss, in, said that it "Succeeds brilliantly." Called it "Rock solid" And hailed it as "Invaluable." And sidney blumenthal in wrote that it was "Dense with astonishing incidents." Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of johnson available.