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<p><i>Notes on Contributors viii</i></p> <p>Introduction 1<br /> <i>Mitchell B. Lerner</i></p> <p><b>Part I Pre-Presidential Years 5</b></p> <p>1 The Changing South 7<br /> <i>Jeff Woods</i></p> <p>2 LBJ in the House and Senate 23<br /> <i>Donald A. Ritchie</i></p> <p>3 The Vice Presidency 38<br /> <i>Marc J. Selverstone</i></p> <p><b>Part II Lyndon B. Johnson’s White House 57</b></p> <p>4 Lady Bird Johnson 59<br /> <i>Lisa M. Burns</i></p> <p>5 Management and Vision 76<br /> <i>Sean J. Savage</i></p> <p><b>Part III Domestic Policy 91</b></p> <p>6 The War on Poverty 93<br /> <i>Edward R. Schmitt</i></p> <p>7 African-American Civil Rights 111<br /> <i>Kent B. Germany</i></p> <p>8 Mexican Americans 132<br /> <i>Lorena Oropeza</i></p> <p>9 Women’s Issues 149<br /> <i>Susan M. Hartmann</i></p> <p>10 Health Care 163<br /> <i>Larry DeWitt and Edward D. Berkowitz</i></p> <p>11 Environmental Policy 187<br /> <i>Martin V. Melosi</i></p> <p>12 American Immigration Policy 210<br /> <i>Donna R. Gabaccia and Maddalena Marinari</i></p> <p>13 LBJ and the Constitution 228<br /> <i>Robert David Johnson</i></p> <p>14 The Urban Crisis 245<br /> <i>David Steigerwald</i></p> <p>15 Education Reform 263<br /> <i>Lawrence J. McAndrews</i></p> <p>16 Domestic Insurgencies 278<br /> <i>Doug Rossinow</i></p> <p>17 LBJ and the Conservative Movement 295<br /> <i>Jeff Roche</i></p> <p><b>Part IV: Vietnam 319</b></p> <p>18 Decisions for War 321<br /> <i>Andrew Preston</i></p> <p>19 Fighting the Vietnam War 336<br /> <i>Robert D. Schulzinger</i></p> <p>20 The War at Home 350<br /> <i>Mary Ann Wynkoop</i></p> <p>21 The War from the Other Side 367<br /> <i>Pierre Asselin</i></p> <p><b>Part V Beyond Vietnam 385</b></p> <p>22 Latin America 387<br /> <i>Alan McPherson</i></p> <p>23 Europe 406<br /> <i>Thomas Alan Schwartz</i></p> <p>24 LBJ and the Cold War 420<br /> <i>John Dumbrell</i></p> <p>25 The Middle East 439<br /> <i>Peter L. Hahn</i></p> <p>26 LBJ and the New Global Challenges 450<br /> <i>Mark Atwood Lawrence</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Final Reckonings 467</b></p> <p>27 How Great was the Great Society? 469<br /> <i>Sidney M. Milkis</i></p> <p>28 Lyndon B. Johnson and the World 487<br /> <i>Nicholas Evan Sarantakes</i></p> <p>29 The Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson 504<br /> <i>Andrew L. Johns</i></p> <p><i>Bibliography 521</i></p> <p><i>Index 583</i></p>

<b>Mitchell B. Lerner </b>is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. He has held the Mary Ball Washington Distinguished Fulbright Chair at University College-Dublin, and been an officer of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is also Director of Ohio State's Institute for Korea Studies. He is the author of<i> The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy </i>(2002), which won the John Lyman Book Award, and editor of <i>Looking Back at LBJ</i> (2005).

From Vietnam to the Great Society to the Civil Rights reforms, the Johnson presidency saw a barrage of controversial but important measures that generate almost as much dispute today as they did when they were enacted. This collection offers an overview of Lyndon B. Johnson's life, presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the central arguments and scholarly debates from his term in office.<br /> <br /> The essays examine the traditional understandings of the president’s interaction with the major issues facing America, and the world, in the mid-1960s, while incorporating the dramatic new interpretations that have resulted from the recent release of around 8,000 phone conversations and meetings that Johnson secretly recorded as President.<br /> <br /> <i>A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson</i> brings together the emerging historiographical writing on the 36th President of the United States and is the definitive guide to the evolution and current status of Johnson scholarship.

"This volume of essays is a superb contribution to the growing body of scholarship on LBJ and his presidency. Lerner, himself one of the country’s leading experts on Johnson, has assembled a first-rate cast of contributors." – <i>Randall B. Woods, author</i>, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition<br /> <br /> "For all serious scholars and students of Lyndon Johnson—and given the long-term consequences of Vietnam, the Great Society, and the 1960s broadly, aren’t we all?—Lerner’s compilation is a must-read to truly understand the man and his era." - <i>Jeffrey A. Engel, Kruse ’52 Founders Professor, Texas A&M University<br /> <br /> </i>"The one-stop source for the latest historiography on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.  Lerner has assembled a collection of gems by the leading historians of U.S. domestic and foreign policy during the Johnson era." – <i>Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut<br /> </i>

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