Lady Bird’s Words

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LadyBirdJohnson_JacketArt-312x475In case you missed it in the magazine’s February issue, here’s a pointer to Observer contributor Robert Leleux’s review of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, by Michael L. Gillette.

The blog of Oxford University Press, which published the book in November of last year, just posted an interesting online interview with Gillette, executive director of Humanities Texas and former director of the LBJ Library’s Oral History Program, in which he talks about the making of the book.

For more, mark the calendar for Tuesday, April 9, at 6 p.m., when Gillette kicks off a lecture series on influential Texas women with an inaugural installment titled “Conversations with Lady Bird Johnson” at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Houston native, 7th-generation Texan, and Rice grad Brad Tyer has contributed to the Observer as a writer and editor since the mid-1990s. He’s worked as music editor at the Houston Press and editor-in-chief of Missoula, Montana’s Independent; his freelance work has been published in The New York Times Book Review, Outside, High Country News, No Depression, and The Drake, among other venues. Brad was awarded a 2010 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan and a 2011 grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to support research for his first book, Opportunity, Montana, published by Beacon Press in March, 2013.