The fierce urgency of now
Subtitle: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the battle for the Great Society
By: Julian E. Zelizer
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781594204340
Subjects: Politics and government; Economic policy; Social policy
Description: "Zelizer takes the full measure of the entire story [of Johnson's liberal agenda] in all its epic sweep. Before Johnson, Kennedy tried and failed to achieve many of these advances. Our practiced understanding is that this was an unprecedented liberal hour in America, a moment, after Kennedy's death, when the seas parted and Johnson could simply stroll through to victory. As Zelizer shows, this view is off-base: in many respects America was even more conservative than it seems now, and Johnson's legislative program faced bitter resistance" --Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: The challenges of a liberal presidency; title: Deadlocked democracy; title: New president, same old Congress; title: Legislating civil rights; title: How Barry Goldwater built the Great Society; title: The fabulous Eighty-Ninth Congress; title: Congressional conservatism revived; title: The triumph of austerity politics; title: The endurance of the Great Society.