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A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson

Beschreibung

From Vietnam to the Great Society to the Civil Rights reforms, the Johnson presidency saw a barrage of controversial but important measures that generate almost as much dispute today as they did when they were enacted. This collection 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. The essays examine the traditional understandings of the president's interaction with the major issues facing America, and the world, in the mid-1960s, while incorporating the dramatic new interpretations that have resulted from the recent release of around 8,000 phone conversations and meetings that Johnson secretly recorded as President. A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson brings together the emerging historiographical writing on the 36th President of the United States and is the definitive guide to the evolution and current status of Johnson scholarship.

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 178mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1080g
• ISBN-13: 9781444333893
• ISBN-10: 1444333895
• Artikelnr.: 35083958

Rezensionen

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

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

"The one-stop source for the latest historiography on thepresidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Lerner has assembled acollection of gems by the leading historians of U.S. domestic andforeign policy during the Johnson era." - FrankCostigliola, University of Connecticut