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‘Indomitable Will’ by Mark K. Updegrove

By David M. Shribman

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 22, 2012

Lyndon Johnson was so big a figure that no one canvas, let alone one book (or many, in the case of Robert Caro, whose fourth volume on LBJ comes out this spring - a literary event if there ever was one) can adequately capture him. Yet Mark K. Updegrove, the current director of the Johnson Library and Museum does remarkably well in “Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency’’ with one crisp phrase: “Flawed, yes, and not always good, but great.’’

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