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1960 : LBJ Vs. JFK Vs. Nixon : The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies

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David PietruszaPublication Details
BookUnion Square Press2008Description
Until now, the most authoritative study of the 1960 election was Theodore Whites Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the President, 1960. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) JK526 1960 .P54 2008 AVAILABLE
The White House Looks South : Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson

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William E. LeuchtenburgPublication Details
BookLouisiana State University Press2005Links
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Leuchtenburg offers an engaging account of relations between these three presidents and the South while also tracing how the region came to embrace a national perspective without losing its distinctive sense of place. Leuchtenburg explores in fascinating detail how their unique attachment to “place” helped them to adopt shifting identities, which proved useful in healing rifts between North and South, in altering behavior in regard to race, and in fostering southern economic growth. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E747 .L48 2005 AVAILABLE
LBJ : Architect Of American Ambition

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Randall B. WoodsPublication Details
BookFree Press2006Links
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For almost forty years, the verdict on Lyndon Johnson’s presidency has been reduced to a handful of harsh words: tragedy, betrayal, lost opportunity. Thanks to the release of thousands of hours of LBJ’s White House tapes, along with the declassification of tens of thousands of documents and interviews with key aides, Woods’s LBJ brings crucial new evidence to bear on many key aspects of the man and the politician. Through insights gained from interviews with his longtime secretary, his Secret Service detail, and his closest aides and confidants, Woods brings Johnson before us in vivid and unforgettable color. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E847 .W73 2006 AVAILABLE
Presidents From Eisenhower Through Johnson, 1953-1969 : Debating The Issues In Pro And Con Primary Documents

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[compiled by] John A. King, Jr. with John R. VilePublication Details
BookGreenwood Press2006Links
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However, despite the Cold War and demands of international politics, these three presidents were continually involved in critical debates about the domestic future of America, and their roles and victories in these debates have left deep impressions upon American society. and Johnson’s Civil Rights Act, Model Cities Program, war on poverty, and role in the ground and air wars in Vietnam. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) E176.1 .P92135 2006 AVAILABLE
When Affirmative Action Was White : An Untold History Of Racial Inequality In Twentieth-century America

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Ira KatznelsonPublication Details
Book1st edW.W. Norton2005Links
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When Affirmative Action Was White demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E185.61 .K354 2005 AVAILABLE
The Deadly Bet : LBJ, Vietnam, And The 1968 Election

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Walter LaFeberPublication Details
BookRowman & Littlefield Publishers2005Links
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Walter LaFeber explores the turbulent elcetion of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E851 .L33 2005 AVAILABLE
JFK, LBJ, And The Democratic Party

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Sean J. SavagePublication Details
BookState University of New York Press2004Links
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JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party is a richly detailed, comprehensive, and provocative account of presidential party leadership in the turbulent 1960s. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E841 .S28 2004 AVAILABLE
Judgment Days : Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Laws That Changed America

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Nick KotzPublication Details
BookHoughton Mifflin2005Links
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Opposites in almost every way, mortally suspicious of each other at first, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr., were thrust together in the aftermath of John F. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources — Johnson’s taped telephone conversations, voluminous FBI wiretap logs, previously secret communications between the FBI and the president — Nick Kotz gives us a dramatic narrative, rich in dialogue, that presents this momentous period with thrilling immediacy. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E847.2 .K67 2005 AVAILABLE
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes

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[compiled by] Max HollandPublication Details
Book1st edAlfred A. Knopf2004Description
In this book, Max Holland, a leading authority on the assassination and longtime Washington journalist, presents the momentous telephone calls President Johnson made and received as he sought to stabilize the country and keep the government functioning in the wake of November 22, 1963. We eavesdrop on all the conversations?including those with leading journalists?that persuaded Johnson to abandon his initial plan to let Texas authorities investigate the assassination. We also learn how Johnson cajoled and drafted other prominent men?among them Senator Richard Russell (who detested Warren), Allen Dulles, John McCloy, and Gerald Ford?into serving. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E842.9 .J6425 2004 DUE 12-05-09
The Fall Of The House Of Roosevelt : Brokers Of Ideas And Power From FDR To LBJ

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Michael JanewayPublication Details
BookColumbia University Press2004Description
“Michael Janeway brilliantly conveys the sense of what it was to be a New Deal insider and operator in a mesmerizing and moving group biography and family memoir. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E806 .J27 2004 AVAILABLE
Kennedy, Johnson, And The Quest For Justice : The Civil Rights Tapes

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Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary KarabellPublication Details
Book1st edW.W. Norton2003Links
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Peer inside the White House as Presidents Kennedy and Johnson grapple with racial injustice in America. Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice brings the reader into the room as Kennedy argues with Mississippi governor Ross Barnett and the white business leaders of Birmingham, Alabama, and as Johnson makes late-night phone calls to Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP head Roy Wilkins, and Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E185.61 .R816 2003 AVAILABLE
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Reaching For Glory : Lyndon Johnson’s Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965
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edited and with commentary by Michael BeschlossPublication Details
Book, Simon & Schuster, 2001Description
Transcribing, editing, and explaining the most powerful moments from hundreds of hours of newly released LBJ tapes, Michael Beschloss has added another lasting treasure to the American historical record. Winding Johnson’s voice and exclusive excerpts from Lady Bird Johnson’s private diaries into a gripping narrative, Michael Beschloss provides context and historical insights, showing how profoundly LBJ changed the presidency and the country. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Johnson, Lyndon B. · (Lyndon Baines), · 1908-1973 · Archives · United States · Politics and government · 1963-1969 · Sources · Beschloss, Michael RAvailability