A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson (eBook)

Mitchell B. Lerner (Herausgeber)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
544 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781444347463 (ISBN)

Infos

This companion offers an overview of Lyndon B. Johnson's life,
presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the central
arguments and scholarly debates from his term in office.



* Explores the legacy of Johnson and the historical significance
of his years as president

* Covers the full range of topics, from the social and civil
rights reforms of the Great Society to the increased American
involvement in Vietnam

* Incorporates the dramatic new evidence that has come to light
through the release of around 8,000 phone conversations and
meetings that Johnson secretly recorded as President

Autor

Mitchell B. Lerner is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. He has held the Mary Ball Washington Distinguished Fulbright Chair at University College-Dublin, and been an officer of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is also Director of Ohio State's Institute for Korea Studies. He is the author of The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy (2002), which won the John Lyman Book Award, and editor of Looking Back at LBJ (2005).

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction 1

Mitchell B. Lerner

Part I Pre-Presidential Years 5

1 The Changing South 7

Jeff Woods

2 LBJ in the House and Senate 23

Donald A. Ritchie

3 The Vice Presidency 38

Marc J. Selverstone

Part II Lyndon B. Johnson's White House 57

4 Lady Bird Johnson 59

Lisa M. Burns

5 Management and Vision 76

Sean J. Savage

Part III Domestic Policy 91

6 The War on Poverty 93

Edward R. Schmitt

7 African-American Civil Rights 111

Kent B. Germany

8 Mexican Americans 132

Lorena Oropeza

9 Women's Issues 149

Susan M. Hartmann

10 Health Care 163

Larry DeWitt and Edward D. Berkowitz

11 Environmental Policy 187

Martin V. Melosi

12 American Immigration Policy 210

Donna R. Gabaccia and Maddalena Marinari

13 LBJ and the Constitution 228

Robert David Johnson

14 The Urban Crisis 245

David Steigerwald

15 Education Reform 263

Lawrence J. McAndrews

16 Domestic Insurgencies 278

Doug Rossinow

17 LBJ and the Conservative Movement 295

Jeff Roche

Part IV: Vietnam 319

18 Decisions for War 321

Andrew Preston

19 Fighting the Vietnam War 336

Robert D. Schulzinger

20 The War at Home 350

Mary Ann Wynkoop

21 The War from the Other Side 367

Pierre Asselin

Part V Beyond Vietnam 385

22 Latin America 387

Alan McPherson

23 Europe 406

Thomas Alan Schwartz

24 LBJ and the Cold War 420

John Dumbrell

25 The Middle East 439

Peter L. Hahn

26 LBJ and the New Global Challenges 450

Mark Atwood Lawrence

Part VI Final Reckonings 467

27 How Great was the Great Society? 469

Sidney M. Milkis

28 Lyndon B. Johnson and the World 487

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

29 The Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson 504

Andrew L. Johns

Bibliography 521

Index 583

Rezensionen

"This volume of essays is a superb contribution to the growing body
of scholarship on LBJ and his presidency. Lerner, himself one of
the country's leading experts on Johnson, has assembled a
first-rate cast of contributors." - Randall B. Woods,
author, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition

"For all serious scholars and students of Lyndon Johnson--and
given the long-term consequences of Vietnam, the Great Society, and
the 1960s broadly, aren't we all?--Lerner's
compilation is a must-read to truly understand the man and his
era." - Jeffrey A. Engel, Kruse '52 Founders Professor,
Texas A&M University

"The one-stop source for the latest historiography on the
presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Lerner has assembled a
collection of gems by the leading historians of U.S. domestic and
foreign policy during the Johnson era." - Frank
Costigliola, University of Connecticut

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.12.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 20th Century America • Amerika im 20. Jahrhundert • Geschichte • History
• ISBN-13: 9781444347463 / 9781444347463