Author:
Schulman, Bruce J.
Imprint:Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1995.
Descriptionxiv, 269 p. : ill. 22 cm.
Note:PART ONE. LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND AMERICAN LIBERALISM: -- 1. "The perfect Roosevelt man": Young Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1948 -- 2. Democratic leader: Senator Johnson, 1948-1960 -- 3. "Let us continue": LBJ and the Kennedy legacy, 1960-1964 -- 4. The Great Society -- 5. Shall we overcome? LBJ and the civil rights revolution -- 6. "That bitch of a war": LBJ and Vietnam -- 7. Dumping Johnson: the decline and fall of American liberalism -- PART TWO: THE DOCUMENTS: 8. PERSPECTIVES ON THE GREAT SOCIETY: -- 1. "Let us continue": LBJ's first speech as president -- 2. Launching the Great Society -- 3. A poverty warrior defends the Great Society / Joseph A. Califano, Jr. -- 4. A historian critiques the Great Society / Allen J. Matusow -- 5. Poverty: the statistical record, 1960-1990 -- 9. RACIAL CONFLICT AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION: 6. "We shall overcome": the voting rights speech / Lyndon B. Johnson -- 7. A new militance in Black America / James Farmer -- 8. From civil rights to affirmative action / Lyndon B. Johnson -- 9. War at home and abroad / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 10. VIETNAM: -- 10. LBJ outlines his war aims -- 11. The decision to escalate, 1965 / Jack Valaenti -- 12. We can win in Vietnam: hawks criticize LBJ's strategy / James Burnham -- 13. The student left opposes LBJ / Paul Potter -- 11. THE END OF LIBERALISM: -- 14. LBJ insists on guns and butter / Lyndon B. Johnson -- 15. The liberal coalition breaks up / Peter Schrag -- APPENDICES: An LBJ chronology (1908-19750)
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references, "Selected bibliography" (p. 253-257), and index.
