Lbj's America

The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-17253-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 706 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lawrence, Mark Atwood

Updegrove, Mark K

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Mark Atwood Lawrence and Mark K. Updegrove; 1. LBJ: the man as president Marc J. Selverstone; 2. LBJ and the contours of American liberalism Julian E. Zelizer; 3. Lyndon Johnson and the transformation of cold war conservatism Nicole Hemmer; 4. The great society and the beloved community: Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the partnership that transformed a nation Peniel E. Joseph; 5. Lyndon Johnson, Mexican Americans and the border Geraldo Cadava; 6. The war on poverty: how qualitative liberalism prevailed Joshua Zeitz; 7. LBJ's supreme court Laura Kalman; 8. '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; 9. 'It's always hard to cut losses': the politics of escalation in Vietnam Fredrik Logevall; 10. Lyndon Johnson and the shifting global order Francis J. Gavin; 11. 'Through a narrow glass': compassion, power and Lyndon Johnson's Sheyda Jahanbani; 12. Afterword: LBJ's America Melody C. Barnes; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Lawrence, Mark Atwood
Mark Atwood Lawrence is an award-winning historian who's taught for two decades at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library. His books include The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era, which won the highest book award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Updegrove, Mark K
Mark K. Updegrove is a presidential historian for ABC News and author of five books on the presidency, including most recently Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency. He is a former director of the LBJ Presidential Library and now serves as President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation.