A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson: Lerner/A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson

Content: Chapter One The Changing South (pages 5–22): Jeff Woods Chapter Two LBJ in the House and Senate (pages 23–37): Donald A. Ritchie Chapter Three The Vice Presidency (pages 38–56): Marc J. Selverstone Chapter Four Lady Bird Johnson (pages 57–75): Lisa M. Burns Chapter Five Management and Vision (pages 76–90): Sean J. Savage Chapter Six The War on Poverty (pages 91–110): Edward R. Schmitt Chapter Seven African?American Civil Rights (pages 111–131): Kent B. Germany Chapter Eight Mexican Americans (pages 132–148): Lorena Oropeza Chapter Nine Women's Issues (pages 149–162): Susan M. Hartmann Chapter 10 Health Care (pages 163–186): Larry DeWitt and Edward D. Berkowitz Chapter Eleven Environmental Policy (pages 187–209): Martin V. Melosi Chapter Twelve American Immigration Policy (pages 210–227): Donna R. Gabaccia and Maddalena Marinari Chapter Thirteen LBJ and the Constitution (pages 228–244): Robert David Johnson Chapter Fourteen The Urban Crisis (pages 245–262): David Steigerwald Chapter Fifteen Education Reform (pages 263–277): Lawrence J. McAndrews Chapter Sixteen Domestic Insurgencies (pages 278–294): Doug Rossinow Chapter Seventeen LBJ and the Conservative Movement (pages 295–317): Jeff Roche Chapter Eighteen Decisions for War (pages 319–335): Andrew Preston Chapter Nineteen Fighting the Vietnam War (pages 336–349): Robert D. Schulzinger Chapter Twenty The War at Home (pages 350–366): Mary Ann Wynkoop Chapter Twenty?One The War from the Other Side (pages 367–384): Pierre Asselin Chapter Twenty?Two Latin America (pages 385–405): Alan McPherson Chapter Twenty?Three Europe (pages 406–419): Thomas Alan Schwartz Chapter Twenty?Four LBJ and the Cold War (pages 420–438): John Dumbrell Chapter Twenty?Five The Middle East (pages 439–449): Peter L. Hahn Chapter Twenty?Six LBJ and the New Global Challenges (pages 450–465): Mark Atwood Lawrence Chapter Twenty?Seven How Great was the Great Society? (pages 467–486): Sidney M. Milkis Chapter Twenty?Eight Lyndon B. Johnson and the World (pages 487–503): Nicholas Evan Sarantakes Chapter Twenty?Nine The Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson (pages 504–519): Andrew L. Johns From Vietnam to the Great Society to the Civil Rights reforms, the Johnson presidency saw a barrage of controversial but important measures that generate almost as much dispute today as they did when they were enacted. This collection 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. The essays examine the traditional understandings of the president's interaction with the major issues facing America, and the world, in the mid-1960s, while incorporating the dramatic new interpretations that have resulted from the recent release of around 8,000 phone conversations and meetings that Johnson secretly recorded as President. A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson brings together the emerging historiographical writing on the 36th President of the United States and is the definitive guide to the evolution and current status of Johnson scholarship. -- Book jacket "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"--Del editor "For all serious scholars and students of Lyndon Johnson - and given the long-term consequences of Vietnam, the Great Society, and the 1960s broadly, aren't we all? Lerner's compilation is a must-read to truly understand the man and his era."--Jeffrey A. Engel, Kruse '52 Founders Professor, Texas A & M University "This volume of essays is a superb contribution to the growing body of scholarship on LBJ and his presidency. Lerner, himself one of the country's leading experts on Johnson, has assembled a first-rate cast of contributors."--Randall B. Woods, author, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition "The one-stop source for the latest historiography on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Lerner has assembled a collection of gems by the leading historians of U.S. domestic and foreign policy during the Johnson era."--Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut