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Guns or butter : the presidency of Lyndon Johnson / Irving Bernstein.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, Irving, 1916-2001.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.
- United States.
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (649 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The presidency of Lyndon Johnson was a pivotal moment in twentieth-century American history. From the decisive social programs of the Great Society, to the triumph of the Civil and Voting Rights Acts, to the catastrophe of the Vietnam War and domestic unrest, it was an era of dramatic accomplishment and wrenching tragedy. In Guns or Butter, renowned historian Irving Bernstein brings those five climactic years of the sixties vividly to life, from the moment Lee Harvey Oswald aimed a rifle from the window of the Texas School Depository to the tense ballot-counting that put Richard Nixon in the W
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; PROLOGUE: THE VICE PRESIDENCY; I: CARETAKER OF JOHN F. KENNEDY'S LEGACY; II: LYNDON JOHNSON-""THE GREAT, FABULOUS 89TH CONGRESS""; III: LYNDON JOHNSON-EMBATTLED, BESIEGED, UNDERMINED; IV: CODA; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-575) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-12137-9
- 9786613121370
- 0-19-987431-X
- OCLC:
- 729244799
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