TY - BOOK ID - 60367172 TI - Guns or butter : the presidency of Lyndon Johnson PY - 1996 SN - 0195063120 9786613121370 019987431X 1283121379 9780199874316 9780195063127 9781283121378 6613121371 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - 1963-1969 KW - Presidents KW - Biography KW - Johnson, Lyndon B. KW - Chan-sên, KW - Johnson, Lyndon Baines, KW - Dzhonson, Lindon, KW - L. B. J. KW - ג'ונסון, לינדון KW - ジョンソン, KW - Johnson, L. KW - Čhō̜nsan, Lindō̜n Bī., UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:60367172 AB - 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 W ER -