Lyndon Johnson confronts the world
Subtitle: American foreign policy, 1963-1968
By: editors, Warren I. Cohen, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker.
Contributors: Cohen, Warren I.; Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon B. 1908-1973.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969.
Description: This book is the most comprehensive, perceptive, and nuanced review to date of the foreign policy of the Lyndon Johnson era. It demonstrates not only U.S. concern with the Soviet Union, Europe, and nuclear weapons issues but also the overwhelming preoccupation with Vietnam that shaped policy throughout the world.

During this period, Johnson also faced a series of emergencies ranging from turmoil in the Congo, to war in the Middle East, to a perceived communist challenge in the Caribbean, to a lingering hostage crisis in Asia. 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-330) and index.