What is the author's style in Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin?

The book is composed in twelve chapters of varying lengths, dependent upon the detail needed to provide a complete picture of Johnson's life, presented chronologically, as is often the case, with a biography. Throughout this time line, however, references are made both to past and future, a technique that lends credibility to the themes of power, control, ambition and paternalism, and which allows the reader to see the clear cause-effect relationships of action, circumstance, and downright luck that characterized the life of Lyndon Johnson. The continual hints of future turmoil, dissension, and ultimate defeat prepare the reader for an understanding of how it all went terribly wrong and provide a much more complete picture of the forces driving this complex personality. A comprehensive Foreward and and equally impressive Postscript complete the author's analysis and presentation of themes.