Download or read book Lyndon B Johnson written by Charles Peters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and presidency collapsed in the tragedy of the Vietnam War Few figures in American history are as compelling and complex as Lyndon Baines Johnson, who established himself as the master of the U.S. Senate in the 1950s and succeeded John F. Kennedy in the White House after Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963. Charles Peters, a keen observer of Washington politics for more than five decades, tells the story of Johnson's presidency as the tale of an immensely talented politician driven by ambition and desire. As part of the Kennedy-Johnson administration from 1961 to 1968, Peters knew key players, including Johnson's aides, giving him inside knowledge of the legislative wizardry that led to historic triumphs like the Voting Rights Act and the personal insecurities that led to the tragedy of Vietnam. Peters's experiences have given him unique insight into the poisonous rivalry between Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy, showing how their misunderstanding of each other exacerbated Johnson's self-doubt and led him into the morass of Vietnam, which crippled his presidency and finally drove this larger-than-life man from the office that was his lifelong ambition.
Download or read book The Presidency of Lyndon B Johnson written by Vaughn Davis Bornet and published by Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1983 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an assessment of the Johnson administration including the Vietnam issue.
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Lyndon B Johnson 1968 1969 written by Johnson, Lyndon B. and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Download or read book Chief of Staff written by W. Marvin Watson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief of Staff to the President is perhaps the most important political appointment in our nation's government. Aside from handling the myriad of day to day details that keep the White House running, the Chief of Staff is often the President's closest confidante and gatekeeper--anyone who wants access to the Oval Office goes through the Chief of Staff. President Lyndon Johnson bestrode the American political scene as a colossus of energy, ambition, and purpose. He attempted to achieve no less then the total eradication of poverty and expended every last ounce of his political capitol with Congress to pass Civil Rights legislation. And, throughout, he was--as he knew better than anyone else--being destroyed by a war he inherited, detested, and could do nothing to stop. With W. Marvin Watson, his Chief of Staff and most intimate adviser, finally revealing what he knows about this extraordinary figure, readers are taken, firsthand, inside the presidential life and times of Lyndon Johnson.
Download or read book Guns or Butter The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson written by Los Angeles (Emeritus) Irving Bernstein Professor of Political Science University of California and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996-01-11 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presidency of Lyndon Johnson was a pivotal moment in twentieth-century American history. From the decisive social programs of the Great Society, to the triumph of the Civil and Voting Rights Acts, to the catastrophe of the Vietnam War and domestic unrest, it was an era of dramatic accomplishment and wrenching tragedy. In Guns or Butter, renowned historian Irving Bernstein brings those five climactic years of the sixties vividly to life, from the moment Lee Harvey Oswald aimed a rifle from the window of the Texas School Depository to the tense ballot-counting that put Richard Nixon in the White House in 1968. Bernstein's book is a narrative masterpiece, filled with sharply drawn character sketches and swiftly moving accounts of events that range from deals cut in the Senate cloakroom, to police charging after protesters on the streets of Selma, to Vietcong commandos bursting into the American embassy in Saigon. We see Johnson ordering aides Bill Moyers and Richard Goodwin to strip and join him for a skinny-dip in the White House pool, where they formulate the Great Society. And we see a tired, distracted president pacing in his bathrobe around a table model of the besieged Khe Sanh garrison, examining aerial photographs and casualty reports. Equally important, Bernstein offers a deft assessment of Johnson's successes and failures, from his legislative programs to his futile pursuit of the war in Vietnam to his failure to boost Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign in 1968. The author not only retells the maneuvering that brought the president's plans into law, he also analyzes and explains their impact, from the Voting Rights Act to Medicare. The Great Society, Bernstein concludes, was a triumph, but Johnson's attempt to have both guns and butter, to pursue massive domestic initiatives together with a bitter undeclared war, led to runaway inflation that ultimately undermined his presidency. From the dark moments after Kennedy's assassination in 1963, to the heady days of legislative victories of 1965, to the bloody crescendo of riots, assassinations, and military battles in 1968, Johnson's administration was a defining moment in modern American history. In Guns or Butter, Irving Bernstein brilliantly captures both the events and the meaning of those momentous years. Aside from its historical value, this book has major current significance. The legislative program Newt Gingrich and his Republican colleagues introduced in 1995 was designed to repeal the Great Society. Before doing so, members of Congress and the interested public should understand Lyndon Johnson's vision and the legislation that was enacted during the sixties. Guns or Butter provides that critical information.
Download or read book Remaking the Democratic Party written by Hanes Walton and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Southern support for Johnson throughout his political career and his transformative leadership of the Democratic Party
Download or read book Lyndon B Johnson written by Randy Schultz and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the life of our nation's thirty-sixth president, whose administration became known for his "Great Society" politics and its involvement in the Vietnam War.
Download or read book Lyndon B Johnson written by Jim Hargrove and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1987 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the life of the Texas politician who became America's thirty-sixth president and faced great public controversy during the war in Vietnam.
Download or read book The Johnson Treatment written by Jack Bell and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion to Lyndon B Johnson written by Mitchell B. Lerner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Indomitable Will written by Mark K. Updegrove and published by Crown Pub. This book was released on 2012 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive oral history of Johnson's presidency is presented in the words of the 36th President and some of his closest associates, offering insight into his perspectives on the sweeping changes affecting his time, from Medicare and civil rights to his anti-poverty legislation and the Vietnam War. By the author of Second Acts. 50,000 first printing.
Download or read book Lyndon B Johnson written by Megan M. Gunderson and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography introduces readers to the life of Lyndon B. Johnson including his military service, early political career, and key events from Johnson's administration including the Civil Rights Act, the Vietnam War, and the Voting Rights Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Lyndon B Johnson 1963 1964 written by Johnson, Lyndon B. and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Lyndon B Johnson 1965 written by Johnson, Lyndon B. and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Download or read book Lyndon B Johnson written by Robert Dallek and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb, one-volume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson is by the bestselling author of "An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963."
Download or read book A Very Personal Presidency written by Hugh Sidey and published by New York : Atheneum. This book was released on 1968 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is certainly not the first unflattering portrait to be drawn of Our Leader, but miraculously Mr. Sidey has managed to keep the note of outrage from this series of short sketches, chronological reconstructions and personal asides. Mr. Sidey has sidled around the White House for some time on behalf of Life and Time, and while obviously hip on the official and unofficial details of crisis management, he is concerned here with communicative processes of Lyndon Johnson, not so much in terms of success or failure, but as indications of a total personality. Sidey seems to be the first in our knowledge to obviate the personal magnetism and power of the President's presence, to ""cut him down"" without contempt or anger. The conclusions are perhaps not new--Johnson's ""managerial technique"" of man-to-man persuasion was just not effective on a broad front. He failed both to educate and inspire. ""He did not enlighten; he promised. He did not inspire; he promised."" He decided to retire, the author reasons, because he realized he was in trouble and that his time was up. The many public and private views of the President--from a supremely happy incognito visit to a bull auction to a grim plodding ""without visible inspiration"" through a Malaysia village--shade out the portrait. Mr. Sidey's Bobby bias appears at times, but his compassion softens the scrutiny.
Download or read book LBJ s 1968 written by Kyle Longley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads his readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'. Longley explores how LBJ perceived the most significant events of 1968, including the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Kennedy, and the violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago. His responses to the crises were sometimes effective but often tragic, and LBJ's refusal to seek re-election underscores his recognition of the challenges facing the country in 1968. As much a biography of a single year as it is of LBJ, LBJ's 1968 vividly captures the tumult that dominated the headlines on a local and global level.
