Exploring the Johnson Years / / ed. by Robert A. Divine.

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 contri...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1981
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Other title: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
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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780292768642
9783110745351
DOI:10.7560/720312
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Robert A. Divine.