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.
| ISBN: | 9781009172530 |
| Publication date: | 19th October 2023 |
| Author: | Mark Atwood Lawrence, Mark K Updegrove |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 388 pages |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas Cultural policies and debates Poverty and precarity Political leaders and leadership Diplomacy Human rights, civil rights Biography: historical, political and military Politics and government |