Johnson at length five years ago for an article to be published in Texas Monthly. That led to this book, with which its subject cooperated until, a couple of years ago, Russell began to press her about her husband's "key relationships with other women," many of which were adulterous. At that point Mrs. Johnson ended her interviews with Russell, in an "icy and final" letter, but her resistance must not have been total, for Russell quotes at length from private letters and other documents over which she presumably has some degree of control.