This book contains a lot of historical details about Lyndon Johnson going back to his college days and even before, his political career, his presidency, and beyond.
The main premise of the book is Johnson suffered from a mental disorder called manic depression. Another name for this mental condition is bipolar disorder because the individual exhibits wild mood swings between the two emotional poles of manic exuberance and debilitating depression. These powerful emotions cause various effects on human behavior and can even cause physical effects and health problems.
Like the emotions themselves the effects on the individual can also be extreme. Johnson was a man of extremes according to the book. Extreme smoking. Extreme drinking, Extreme womanizing. But also extreme working. Johnson was a driven, ambitious workaholic.
Along with the extreme mood swings and behavior comes delusions which the individual has about themselves. Johnson was an egomaniac. They may also have a martyr and persecution complex where they feel they are surrounded by enemies who want to destroy them.
I think everyone exhibits some of these personality traits from time to time. I guess it's a question of degrees between people and some people cross the line into what psychiatrists view as mental illness.
Another point of the book is the inherent dangers of a powerful individual like an American president suffering from bipolar disorder or any mental illness. There may be a tendency to conceal their condition from the public and perhaps a reluctance to allow a president to seek professional help from a psychiatrist.
But in the case of Lyndon Johnson I'm not convinced that everything he did was a result of bipolar disorder. I'm a believer in the JFK assassination conspiracy and I believe Johnson was part of this conspiracy. The belief with the conspiracy crowd is Lyndon Johnson had two choices. Bobby Kennedy had become aware of Johnson's involvement with many murders that happened during his political career. Those bodies were starting to surface and Bobby could smell the blood in the water. Lyndon's choices were to be friendly with the assassination and the Vietnam War or go to prison for a very long time.
Lyndon Johnson was indicted posthumously for his involvement in many murder conspiracies including the murder of USDA investigator Henry Marshall. Not that a grand jury indictment is like a conviction in court but to me for a grand jury to take this step indicates that there was a lot of evidence pointing to Lyndon Johnson as a corrupt and vicious killer.
Saying that Lyndon Johnson had foreknowledge of the JFK assassination and that he participated in the assassination and ensuing massive cover up changes everything about what Lyndon's true motivations were for Vietnam and many other things.
Roger Stone and Phil Nelson have books out about Johnson's involvement in the JFK assassination.
Fletcher Prouty's two books, especially his 'JFK', paint a very dismal picture of the true causes for the so called Vietnam War and what exactly was going on within the United States government when JFK was killed.
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