Democrats: Lyndonthink

While the thoughts of Red China's leader are available to American read ers in the little red booklet Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, they have no such access to the accumulated wisdom of Lyndon Johnson. To fill this obvious gap—and turn a profit in the process—Journalists Jack Shepherd, 30, and Christopher Wren, 31, set out to anthologize Quotations from Chairman L.B.J.

Carefully following the original Red format, the two Look senior editors—Democrats both—grouped Johnson's sayings under 30 categories such as "The Long March Toward the Great Society" and "Humble Origins of the...