num_pages: 269
description: This is a treatment of the major events of Lyndon Johnson's career with a central focus on his role as the emblematic figure in the rise and fall of postwar American liberalism. The volume contains 15 documents - Johnson's own speeches and assessments of the president and his programmes by contemporaries and later scholars - that give students the opportunity to read about LBJ's career and to evaluate his impact.
language: English
title: Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents
titlecomplete: Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
genres: Nonfiction, American History, Biography, History
ratings_count: 121
publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's