Exploring the Johnson Years.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Divine, Robert A.

Contributor:

Divine, Robert A.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : University of Texas Press, 1981.

Summary:

More than a decade after LBJ left office, researchers began to open up the Johnson administration as an important area of scholarly study. Exploring the Johnson Years is an invaluable introduction to that administration and to the LBJ Library’s more than thirty million separate documents. The contributors cover every major aspect of the Johnson presidency, from Vietnam (George C. Herring) to the War on Poverty (Mark I. Gelfand), including coverage of Latin American policy (Walter LaFeber), education (Hugh Davis Graham), civil rights (Steven F. Lawson), the nature of the White House staff (Larry Berman), and Johnson’s stormy relationship with the media (David Culbert). The essays illuminate some of the most important files and show how they can be used to further historical understanding of the Johnson years. As a result, scholars who plan to use the library will have a useful guide before they begin, while general readers will be able to discover the ways in which the library’s holdings relate to the existing body of literature on the Johnson administration.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

The Johnson Literature

Part 1 Foreign Policy

1 The War in Vietnam

2 Latin American Policy

Part 2 The Great Society

3 Civil Rights

4 The War on Poverty

5 The Transformation of Federal Education Policy

Part 3 The White House

6 Johnson and the White House Staff

7 Johnson and the Media

Appendix

Historical Materials in the Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-292-76864-8

OCLC:

1309019976