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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

Produktbeschreibung
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
Autorenporträt
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).
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"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