LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Mark Atwood Lawrence (LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, Austin) Mark K. Updegrove (LBJ Foundation, Austin)

LBJ's America

The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson

Mark Atwood Lawrence (LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, Austin), Mark K. Updegrove (LBJ Foundation, Austin)

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Cambridge University Press
19 October 2023

History; History of the Americas

In innumerable ways, we still live in LBJ's America. More than half a century after his death, Lyndon Baines Johnson continues to exert profound influence on American life. This collection skillfully explores his seminal accomplishments—protecting civil rights, fighting poverty, expanding access to medical care, lowering barriers to immigration—as well as his struggles in Vietnam and his difficulty responding to other challenges in an era of declining US influence on the global stage. Sweeping and influential, LBJ's America probes the ways in which the accomplishments, setbacks, controversies and crises of 1963 to 1969 laid the foundations of contemporary America and set the stage for our own era of policy debates, political contention, distrust of government, and hyper-partisanship.

Edited by: Mark Atwood Lawrence (LBJ Presidential Library and Museum Austin), Mark K. Updegrove (LBJ Foundation, Austin)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781009172530
ISBN 10: 1009172530
Pages: 388
Publication Date: 19 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Mark Atwood Lawrence and Mark K. Updegrove; 1. LBJ: the man as president Marc J. Selverstone; 2. LBJ and the contours of American liberalism Julian E. Zelizer; 3. Lyndon Johnson and the transformation of cold war conservatism Nicole Hemmer; 4. The great society and the beloved community: Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the partnership that transformed a nation Peniel E. Joseph; 5. Lyndon Johnson, Mexican Americans and the border Geraldo Cadava; 6. The war on poverty: how qualitative liberalism prevailed Joshua Zeitz; 7. LBJ's supreme court Laura Kalman; 8. 'If I cannot get a whole loaf, I will get what bread I can': LBJ and the Hart-Celler immigration act of 1965 Madeline Y. Hsu; 9. 'It's always hard to cut losses': the politics of escalation in Vietnam Fredrik Logevall; 10. Lyndon Johnson and the shifting global order Francis J. Gavin; 11. 'Through a narrow glass': compassion, power and Lyndon Johnson's Sheyda Jahanbani; 12. Afterword: LBJ's America Melody C. Barnes; Index.

Mark Atwood Lawrence is an award-winning historian who's taught for two decades at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library. His books include The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era, which won the highest book award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Mark K. Updegrove is a presidential historian for ABC News and author of five books on the presidency, including most recently Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency. He is a former director of the LBJ Presidential Library and now serves as President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation.

Reviews for LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson

'Crucial periods in history require regular revisiting. No period in recent American history was more crucial than the 1960s. The contributors to this scintillating volume pair the latest archival research with new perspectives to deliver fresh insight into the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the man at the center of this pivotal decade.' H. W. Brands, author of The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin 'The essays that constitute LBJ's America are collectively engrossing and brilliantly conceived. The amount of first-rate scholarship rendered by these esteemed scholars is deeply impressive. Historians Mark Lawrence and Mark Updegrove should be congratulated for advancing Great Society studies a giant leap forward with this enlightened edited volume. Highly recommended!' Douglas Brinkley, author of Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening 'LBJ's America provides an essential understanding of the profound impact Lyndon Johnson has had on our country. This superb collection of essays by a remarkable array of authors is seamlessly curated by Mark Lawrence and Mark Updegrove. Taken together, the wide-ranging essays provide a distinctive and multi-dimensional portrait of one of the most fascinating and consequential presidents in American history.' Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times