LBJ's Neglected Legacy : : How Lyndon Johnson Reshaped Domestic Policy and Government / / ed. by Norman J. Glickman, Laurence E. Lynn, Robert H. Wilson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Bean, Frank D.,; Brown, Susan K.,; Castillo, Esther,; Chapa, Jorge,; Chapman, Gary,; Dallek, Robert,; Francis, Kimberly,; Frumkin, Peter,; Glickman, Norman J.,; Lynn Jr, Laurence E.,; Orfield, Gary,; Osborne, Cynthia,; Rose, Elizabeth,; Starr, Paul,; Wilson, Robert H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Glickman, Norman J.,; Lynn, Laurence E.,; Wilson, Robert H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (481 p.)

During the five full years of his presidency (1964–1968), Lyndon Johnson initiated a breathtaking array of domestic policies and programs, including such landmarks as the Civil Rights Act, Head Start, Food Stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, the Immigration Reform Act, the Water Quality Act, the Voting R...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Tables
• Figures
• Preface
• PART I RECONSIDERING LBJ’S DOMESTIC POLICIES
• CHAPTER 1 Understanding Lyndon Johnson’s Neglected Legacies
• CHAPTER 2 Remembering LBJ: One Historian’s Thoughts on Johnson’s Place in the Pantheon of Presidents
• PART II DEFINING CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
• CHAPTER 3 Ending Jim Crow, Attacking Ghetto Walls
• CHAPTER 4 Expansion and Contraction in LBJ’s Voting Rights Legacy
• CHAPTER 5 An Unexpected Legacy: The Positive Consequences of LBJ’s Immigration Policy Reforms
• PART III EDUCATION, HEALTH, AND SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
• CHAPTER 6 Head Start: Growing beyond the War on Poverty
• CHAPTER 7 Lyndon Johnson and American Education
• CHAPTER 8 The Health Care Legacy of the Great Society
• CHAPTER 9 LBJ’s Legacy in Contemporary Social Welfare Policy: Have We Come Full Circle?
• PART IV CITIES, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND SCIENCE POLICY
• CHAPTER 10 Lyndon Johnson and the Cities
• CHAPTER 11 The Past and Future of the Johnson Administration’s Water Quality Policies
• CHAPTER 12 LBJ, Science, Technology Policy, and Lessons for the Future
• PART V IMPROVING PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
• CHAPTER 13 Reform of the Federal Government: Lessons for Change Agents
• CHAPTER 14 Constructing Effectiveness: The Emergence of the Evaluation Research Industry
• PART VI CONCLUSIONS
• CHAPTER 15 Fifty Years Later: Legacies and Lessons of LBJ’s Domestic Policies
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index