Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Mitchell B. Lerner
Part I Pre-Presidential Years 5
1 The Changing South 7 Jeff Woods
2 LBJ in the House and Senate 23 Donald A. Ritchie
3 The Vice Presidency 38 Marc J. Selverstone
Part II Lyndon B. Johnson’s White House 57
4 Lady Bird Johnson 59 Lisa M. Burns
5 Management and Vision 76 Sean J. Savage
Part III Domestic Policy 91
6 The War on Poverty 93 Edward R. Schmitt
7 African-American Civil Rights 111 Kent B. Germany
8 Mexican Americans 132 Lorena Oropeza
9 Women’s Issues 149 Susan M. Hartmann
10 Health Care 163 Larry DeWitt and Edward D. Berkowitz
11 Environmental Policy 187 Martin V. Melosi
12 American Immigration Policy 210 Donna R. Gabaccia and Maddalena Marinari
13 LBJ and the Constitution 228 Robert David Johnson
14 The Urban Crisis 245 David Steigerwald
15 Education Reform 263 Lawrence J. McAndrews
16 Domestic Insurgencies 278 Doug Rossinow
17 LBJ and the Conservative Movement 295 Jeff Roche
Part IV: Vietnam 319
18 Decisions for War 321 Andrew Preston
19 Fighting the Vietnam War 336 Robert D. Schulzinger
20 The War at Home 350 Mary Ann Wynkoop
21 The War from the Other Side 367 Pierre Asselin
Part V Beyond Vietnam 385
22 Latin America 387 Alan McPherson
23 Europe 406 Thomas Alan Schwartz
24 LBJ and the Cold War 420 John Dumbrell
25 The Middle East 439 Peter L. Hahn
26 LBJ and the New Global Challenges 450 Mark Atwood Lawrence
Part VI Final Reckonings 467
27 How Great was the Great Society? 469 Sidney M. Milkis
28 Lyndon B. Johnson and the World 487 Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
29 The Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson 504 Andrew L. Johns
Bibliography 521
Index 583
