Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 10 of 10
Sort by
Lyndon Baines Johnson and the uses of power
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0313263957 Year: 1988 Publisher: New York Greenwood Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

1968 : the election that changed America
Author:
ISBN: 156663010X Year: 1993 Publisher: Chicago Ivan R. Dee


Book
Of Kennedys and Kings : making sense of the sixties /Harris Wofford
ISBN: 0374224323 Year: 1980 Publisher: New York Farrar, Straus, Giroux

Music Has Gone Out of the Movement.
Author:
ISBN: 1469606577 0807832804 1469622009 9781469606576 9780807832806 9798890879615 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

After the passage of sweeping civil rights and voting rights legislation in 1964 and 1965, the civil rights movement stood poised to build on considerable momentum. In a famous speech at Howard University in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that victory in the next battle for civil rights would be measured in ""equal results"" rather than equal rights and opportunities. It seemed that for a brief moment the White House and champions of racial equality shared the same objectives and priorities. Finding common ground proved elusive, however, in a climate of growing social and political

The war within : America's battle over Vietnam
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0520083679 9780520083677 Year: 1994 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press


Book
Lyndon Johnson : le paradoxe américain
Author:
ISBN: 9782228901505 2228901504 Year: 2006 Volume: *19 Publisher: Paris: Payot et Rivages,

Lyndon B. Johnson : portrait of a president
Author:
ISBN: 1280502967 0195184106 0199728593 9780195184105 9780195159202 0195159209 9781280502965 9780199728596 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael Beschloss, in The Los Angeles Times, said that it "succeeds brilliantly." The New York Times called it "rock solid" and The Washington Post hailed it as "invaluable." And Sidney Blumenthal in The Boston Globe wrote that it was "dense with astonishing incidents.". Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available. Based on years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this biography follows Johnson, the "human dynamo," from the Texas hill country to the White House. We see LBJ, in the House and the Senate, whirl his way through sixteen- and eighteen-hour days, talking, urging, demanding, reaching for influence and power, in an uncommonly successful congressional career. Then, in the White House, we see Johnson as the visionary leader who worked his will on Congress like no president before or since, enacting a range of crucial legislation, from Medicare and environmental protection to the most significant advances in civil rights for black Americans ever achieved. And we see the depth of Johnson's private anguish as he became increasingly ensnared in Vietnam. In these pages Johnson emerges as a man of towering intensity and anguished insecurity, of grandiose ambition and grave self-doubt, a man who was brilliant, crude, intimidating, compassionate, overbearing, driven: "A tornado in pants." Gracefully written and delicately balanced, this singular biography reveals both the greatness and the tangled complexities of one of the most extravagant characters ever to step onto the presidential stage.

Law and order : street crime, civil unrest, and the crisis of liberalism in the 1960s
Author:
ISBN: 023111513X 0231115121 0231509723 9780231509725 9780231115124 9780231115124 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Law and Order offers a valuable new study of the political and social history of the 1960's. It presents a sophisticated account of how the issues of street crime and civil unrest enhanced the popularity of conservatives, eroded the credibility of liberals, and transformed the landscape of American politics. Ultimately, the legacy of law and order was a political world in which the grand ambitions of the Great Society gave way to grim expectations.In the mid-1960's, amid a pervasive sense that American society was coming apart at the seams, a new issue known as law and order emerged


Book
Pandora's trap : presidential decision making and blame avoidance in Vietnam and Iraq
Author:
ISBN: 9780742562639 9780742562646 0742562646 1442212152 0742562638 9781442212152 1283246260 9781283246262 9786613246264 6613246263 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

How important is presidential personality and leadership style in foreign policy decisions? To answer this question, Thomas Preston takes readers inside the Bush administration's decision-making process and use of intelligence to better understand how administration officials justified the Iraq War-and how they sought to avoid blame for the consequences of their actions. Based on extensive interviews with key Bush administration officials, Preston offers students of American foreign policy, presidential decision making, the dynamics of blame avoidance, and future practitioner

Keywords

Blame --- Bush, George Walker, --- Johnson, Lyndon Baines, --- Political leadership --- Presidents --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Political aspects --- Decision making --- United States --- Politics and government --- Bush, George Walker --- Case studies --- Bush, George Walker, 1946 --- -Political leadership --- Political leadership - United States - Case studies --- Blame - Political aspects - United States - Case studies --- Presidents - United States - Decision making - Case studies --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Decision making --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Decision making --- Presidents - United States - Biography --- Bush, George Walker, - 1946 --- -Johnson, Lyndon Baines, - 1908-1973 --- United States - Politics and government - 2001-2009 - Decision making --- United States - Politics and government - 1963-1969 - Decision making --- Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 --- Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 --- Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011 --- Gulf War II, 2003-2011 --- Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010 --- New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011 --- Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 --- Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011 --- Operation Telic, 2003-2011 --- Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011 --- Telic, Operation, 2003-2011 --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- Presidency --- Heads of state --- Executive power --- Criticism, Personal --- Decision making. --- Bush, George W. --- Johnson, Lyndon B. --- Chan-sên, --- Dzhonson, Lindon, --- L. B. J. --- ג'ונסון, לינדון --- ジョンソン, --- Johnson, L. --- Čhō̜nsan, Lindō̜n Bī., --- Bush, George, --- Bush, Geo, --- Bush, Dzhordzh Uoker, --- Bush, Dzh. U. --- Bush, Dzh. --- Bush, --- Bushi, Qiaozhi W., --- Bush, Zhorzh, --- Arbusto, Jorge W., --- Bush, Xhorxh W., --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- États-Unis --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- É.-U. --- ÉU

Listing 1 - 10 of 10
Sort by