Exploring the Johnson Years - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 029276863X ISBN 13: 9780292768635

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1981

Synopsis

More than a decade after LBJ left office, researchers began to open up the Johnson administration as an important area of scholarly study. Exploring the Johnson Years is an invaluable introduction to that administration and to the LBJ Library’s more than thirty million separate documents. The contributors cover every major aspect of the Johnson presidency, from Vietnam (George C. Herring) to the War on Poverty (Mark I. Gelfand), including coverage of Latin American policy (Walter LaFeber), education (Hugh Davis Graham), civil rights (Steven F. Lawson), the nature of the White House staff (Larry Berman), and Johnson’s stormy relationship with the media (David Culbert).

The essays illuminate some of the most important files and show how they can be used to further historical understanding of the Johnson years. As a result, scholars who plan to use the library will have a useful guide before they begin, while general readers will be able to discover the ways in which the library’s holdings relate to the existing body of literature on the Johnson administration.

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About the Author

Robert A. Divine (1929–2021) was George W. Littlefield Professor Emeritus in American History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 029276863X
• ISBN 13: 9780292768635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Divine Robert A.