LBJ's America

The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson

by Edited by Mark Atwood Lawrence and Mark K. Updegrove

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Pub Date Oct 19 2023 | Archive Date Oct 01 2023

History | Nonfiction (Adult)

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In innumerable ways, we still live in LBJ's America. More than half a century after his death, Lyndon Baines Johnson continues to exert profound influence on American life. This collection skillfully explores his seminal accomplishments—protecting civil rights, fighting poverty, expanding access to medical care, lowering barriers to immigration—as well as his struggles in Vietnam and his difficulty responding to other challenges in an era of declining US influence on the global stage. Sweeping and influential, LBJ's America probes the ways in which the accomplishments, setbacks, controversies, and crises of 1963 to 1969 laid the foundations of contemporary America and set the stage for our own era of policy debates, political contention, distrust of government, and hyper-partisanship.

Advance Praise

“LBJ's America provides an essential understanding of the profound impact Lyndon Johnson has had on our country. This superb collection of essays by a remarkable array of authors is seamlessly curated by Mark Lawrence and Mark Updegrove. Taken together, the wide-ranging essays provide a distinctive and multi-dimensional portrait of one of the most fascinating and consequential presidents in American history.” - Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author of Leadership In Turbulent Times

“Crucial periods in history require regular revisiting. No period in recent American history was more crucial than the 1960s. The contributors to this scintillating volume pair the latest archival research with new perspectives to deliver fresh insight into the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the man at the center of this pivotal decade.” - H. W. Brands, author of The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

“LBJ's America provides an essential understanding of the profound impact Lyndon Johnson has had on our country. This superb collection of essays by a remarkable array of authors is seamlessly...