LBJ's America : the life and legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson / edited by Mark Atwood Lawrence, Mark K. Updegrove.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawrence, Mark Atwood, editor.

Updegrove, Mark K., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.

United States.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 373 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

In innumerable ways, we still live in LBJ's America. More than half a century after his death, Lyndon Baines Johnson continues to exert profound influence on American life. This collection skillfully explores his seminal accomplishments-protecting civil rights, fighting poverty, expanding access to medical care, lowering barriers to immigration-as well as his struggles in Vietnam and his difficulty responding to other challenges in an era of declining US influence on the global stage. Sweeping and influential, LBJ's America probes the ways in which the accomplishments, setbacks, controversies and crises of 1963 to 1969 laid the foundations of contemporary America and set the stage for our own era of policy debates, political contention, distrust of government, and hyper-partisanship.

Contents:

Power and Purpose : LBJ in the Presidency / Marc J. Selverstone

LBJ and the Contours of American Liberalism / Julian E. Zelizer

Lyndon Johnson and the Transformation of Cold War Conservatism / Nicole Hemmer

The Great Society and the Beloved Community : Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Partnership That Transformed a Nation / Peniel E. Joseph

Lyndon Johnson, Mexican Americans, and the Border / Geraldo Cadava

The War on Poverty : How Qualitative Liberalism Prevailed / Joshua Zeitz

LBJ's Supreme Court / Laura Kalman

"If I Cannot Get a Whole Loaf, I Will Get What Bread I Can" : LBJ and the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965 / Madeline Y. Hsu

"It's Always Hard to Cut Losses" : The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam / Fredrik Logevall

Lyndon Johnson and the Shifting Global Order / Francis J. Gavin

"Through a Narrow Glass" : Compassion, Power, and Lyndon Johnson's Struggle to Make Sense of the Third World / Sheyda Jahanbani

LBJ's America / Melody C. Barnes.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781009172547 (ebook)

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