Lyndon Johnson confronts the world: American foreign policy, 1963-1968 / editors, Warren I. Cohen, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Warren I.

Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--1963-1969.

United States.

International relations.

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Physical Description:

x, 342 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Summary:

This book is the most comprehensive, perceptive, and nuanced review to date of the foreign policy of the Lyndon Johnson era. It demonstrates not only U.S. concern with the Soviet Union, Europe, and nuclear weapons issues but also the overwhelming preoccupation with Vietnam that shaped policy throughout the world. During this period, Johnson also faced a series of emergencies ranging from turmoil in the Congo, to war in the Middle East, to a perceived communist challenge in the Caribbean, to a lingering hostage crisis in Asia. Using the most recently declassified documents, it explains in thoroughly readable prose the intricacies of the foreign policy dilemmas that forced Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda into retreat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-330) and index.

ISBN:

0521414288

0521424798

OCLC:

30436490