Table of Contents

Foreword - Preface - PART 1: LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND AMERICAN LIBERALISM - 'The Perfect Roosevelt Man': Young Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1948 - Democratic Leader: Senator Johnson, 1948-1960 - 'Let Us Continue': LBJ and the Kennedy Legacy, 1960-1964 - The Great Society - Shall We Overcome? LBJ and the Civil Rights Revolution - 'That Bitch of a War': LBJ and Vietnam - Dumping Johnson: The Decline and Fall of American Liberalism - PART 2: THE DOCUMENTS - Perspectives on the Great Society - 'Let Us Continue': LBJ's First Speech as President - Launching the Great Society - A Poverty Warrior Defends the Great Society - A Historian Critiques the Great Society - Poverty: The Statistical Record, 1960-1990 - Racial Conflict and the Civil Rights Revolution - 'We Shall Overcome': The Voting Rights Speech - A New Militance in Black America - From Civil Rights to Affirmative Action - War at Home and Abroad: Martin Luther King, Jr, Opposes the Vietnam War - Vietnam - LBJ Outlines His War Aims - The Decision to Escalate: 1965 - We Can Win in Vietnam: Hawks Criticize LBJ's Strategy - The Student Left Opposes LBJ - The End of Liberalism - LBJ Insists on Guns and Butter - The Liberal Coalition Breaks Up - Appendices - Index

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"This is a well-balanced, thoughtful, and informative biography of Lyndon Johnson. The documents that illustrate Johnson's presidency only increase the value of the volume. Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism is an excellent choice for U.S. history courses on the second half of the twentieth century and ideal for classes that deal directly with Johnson and his times."