Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World: American Foreign Policy 1963-1968

by Warren I. Cohen, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521414289
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/27/1995
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.33(h) x 1.14(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

"...a solid contribution to presidential studies of American foreign policy." Presidential Studies Quarterly

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