Doris Kearns: the art of biography.

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      Presents a woman biographer Doris Kearns's reflections on the process of writing the biography of former United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Power of personality coupled with a visible and growing vulnerability; Original angle of vision toward Johnson shaped by her training; Gradual destruction of a giant of a man; Loss of human qualities necessary to a proportionate exercise of power; Shifting angles of vision through which a biographer perceives and evaluates his or her biographical materials.