Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World
Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World
American Foreign Policy 1963–1968
Warren I. Cohen, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Georgetown University, Washington DC
January 1995
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This is the most comprehensive, perceptive, and nuanced review to date of the foreign policy of the Lyndon Johnson era. It demonstrates U.S. concern not just with the Soviet Union, Europe, and nuclear weapons issues, but the overwhelming preoccupation with Vietnam that shaped policy throughout the world. Using the most recently declassified documents, it explains in thoroughly readable prose the intricacies of the foreign policy dilemmas that forced Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda into retreat.
- Scholars of great prominence
- First scholarly examination of foreign policy making in Johnson era
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"...a solid contribution to presidential studies of American foreign policy." Presidential Studies Quarterly
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January 1995Hardback
9780521414289
356 pages
237 × 159 × 29 mm
0.66kg
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction Warren I. Cohen
- 2. Lyndon B. Johnson: change and continuity Waldo Heinrichs
- 3. Johnson, Vietnam, and Tocqueville Walter LaFeber
- 4. A time in the tide of men's affairs: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam Richard H. Immerman
- 5. Threats, opportunities, and frustrations in East Asia Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
- 6. Toward disillusionment and disengagement in South Asia Robert J. McMahon
- 7. Lyndon B. Johnson, Germany, and 'the end of the Cold War' Frank Costigliola
- 8. The promise of progress: United States relations with Latin America during the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson Joseph S. Tulchin
- 9. Keeping Africa off the agenda Terrence Lyons
- 10. Balancing American interests in the Middle East: Lyndon Baines Johnson vs. Gamal Abdul Nasser Warren I. Cohen
- 11. Lyndon Johnson: the final reckoning Nancy Bernkopf Tucker.
