Lyndon Johnson and the Majorettes

✍ Scribed by Maillard, Keith

• Book ID: 109150320
• Publisher: Brindle & Glass
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 191 KB
• Series: Difficulty at the Beginning 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781897142080

✦ Synopsis

It is the summer of 1965. The assassination of JFK has left John Dupre--and all of America-- with Lyndon Baines Johnson, that Southern asshole with a public persona cut from an old rock and roll song: I RIDE FROM TEXAS TO ENFORCE THE LAW.

It's oppressively hot, the kind of heat that makes it practically impossible to do anything, or even think straight--and if John's brains aren't addled enough by the temperature, there's the endless obsession with girls--the persistent problems of his old flame Cassandra Markapolous and her younger sister Zoë. There's also the massive Civil War novel he's been studiously not working on. And to make things worse, LBJ's starting to call up the reserves. This is John in that gruelling summer waste land, a fat, broke, horny, unemployed, draft-eligible, Buddhist Confederate, who, if he doesn't do something drastic, is going to find his fat, broke, horny ass shipped overseas to get it shot off.

_Lyndon Johnson and the...