Book contents
- LBJ’s America
- LBJ’s America
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Power and Purpose: LBJ in the Presidency
- Chapter 2 LBJ and the Contours of American Liberalism
- Chapter 3 Lyndon Johnson and the Transformation of Cold War Conservatism
- Chapter 4 The Great Society and the Beloved Community: Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Partnership That Transformed a Nation
- Chapter 5 Lyndon Johnson, Mexican Americans,and the Border
- Chapter 6 The War on Poverty: How Qualitative Liberalism Prevailed
- Chapter 7 LBJ’s Supreme Court
- Chapter 8 “If I Cannot Get a Whole Loaf, I Will Get What Bread I Can”: LBJ and the Hart–Celler Immigration Act of 1965
- Chapter 9 “It’s Always Hard to Cut Losses”: The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam
- Chapter 10 Lyndon Johnson and the Shifting Global Order
- Chapter 11 “Through a Narrow Glass”: Compassion, Power, and Lyndon Johnson’s Struggle to Make Sense of the Third World
- Afterword: LBJ’s America
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2023
- LBJ’s America
- LBJ’s America
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Power and Purpose: LBJ in the Presidency
- Chapter 2 LBJ and the Contours of American Liberalism
- Chapter 3 Lyndon Johnson and the Transformation of Cold War Conservatism
- Chapter 4 The Great Society and the Beloved Community: Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Partnership That Transformed a Nation
- Chapter 5 Lyndon Johnson, Mexican Americans,and the Border
- Chapter 6 The War on Poverty: How Qualitative Liberalism Prevailed
- Chapter 7 LBJ’s Supreme Court
- Chapter 8 “If I Cannot Get a Whole Loaf, I Will Get What Bread I Can”: LBJ and the Hart–Celler Immigration Act of 1965
- Chapter 9 “It’s Always Hard to Cut Losses”: The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam
- Chapter 10 Lyndon Johnson and the Shifting Global Order
- Chapter 11 “Through a Narrow Glass”: Compassion, Power, and Lyndon Johnson’s Struggle to Make Sense of the Third World
- Afterword: LBJ’s America
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- LBJ's AmericaThe Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson, pp. ix - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023