| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

LBJ's Texas White House: "Our Heart's Home." By Hal K. Rothman. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. viii + 301 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.95.)

Noted environmental historian Hal K. Rothman explores a landscape of myth, power, and personal meaning in LBJ's Texas White House. "Buying the ranch made Lyndon Baines Johnson whole in a manner that no other single material acquisition or accomplishment ever did," Rothman argues (p. 55). Therefore the ranch evolved in tandem with his personal and political aspirations. The first renovation of the ranch house sufficed to impress the locals and embellish Johnson's image in Washington. After becoming Senate majority leader in 1955, Johnson transformed the ranch into a base for his political career. He used it to portray himself as a western rancher, first for a broader regional voter base and then for a national audience trained by literature and films to identify the West with individual opportunity. Johnson the westerner could break away from the narrow boundaries of his local constituents and take bolder actions, such as shepherding the 1957 Civil Rights Act through the Senate. . . .

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