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The fierce urgency of now : Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the battle for the Great Society / Julian E. Zelizer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zelizer, Julian E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Social policy.
- United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Economic policy--1961-1971.
- Economic policy.
- United States--Social policy--1961-1971.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (370 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Between November 1963, when he became president, and November 1966, when liberals were routed in the elections, Lyndon Johnson spearheaded the most transformative agenda in American politics since the New Deal. In just three years, he drove the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts, the War 011 Poverty, and Medicare and Medicaid, among a raft of other progressive initiatives. Dubbed the Great Society, it was' an agenda whose ambition and achievement have never been matched, and it remains largely intact fifty years on. In The Fierce Urgency of Now, Julian E. Zelizer takes the full measure of the story in all its epic sweep. He provides unprecedented insight into the battles that raged inside Congress and the administration, and examines the often bitterly divided forces at play in the country-from religious groups and civil rights activists to labor unions and the media-during the tumultuous years when our political sights were set on the ideal of a Great Society. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The challenges of a liberal presidency
- Deadlocked democracy
- New president, same old Congress
- Legislating civil rights
- How Barry Goldwater built the Great Society
- The fabulous Eighty-Ninth Congress
- Congressional conservatism revived
- The triumph of austerity politics
- The endurance of the Great Society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781101605493
- 1101605499
- Publisher Number:
- 99984024893
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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