Author: Elizabeth Chiseri-StraterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780312406745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt + Lyndon B. Johnson & American Liberalism
Author: Elizabeth Chiseri-StraterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780312406745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism
Author: Bruce J. SchulmanPublisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319242774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Whether admired or reviled, Lyndon B. Johnson and his tumultuous administration embodied the principles and contradictions of his era. Taking advantage of newly released evidence, this second edition incorporates a selection of fresh documents, including transcripts of Johnson's phone conversations and conservative reactions to his leadership, to examine the issues and controversies that grew out of Johnson's presidency and have renewed importance today. The voices of Johnson, his aides, his opponents, and his interpreters address the topics of affirmative action, the United States' role in world affairs, civil rights, Vietnam, the Great Society, and the fate of liberal reform. Additional photographs of Johnson in action complement Bruce J. Schulman's rich biographical narrative, and a chronology, an updated bibliographical essay, and new questions for consideration provide pedagogical support.
The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945
Author: Richard D. PolenbergPublisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319242669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The era of Franklin D.Roosevelt and the New Deal was a time of depression and despair, economic rebirth and renewal, and mobilization for a war in both the East and the West. Richard Polenberg's introduction to this new volume provides an engaging historical and biographical overview of the period by focusing on one of its key actors. The biographical introduction is followed by over 45 topically arranged primary sources that provide students with a rich context in which to understand FDR's multifaceted role as president, reformer, policymaker, and commander-in-chief. The readings thoroughly cover issues of race and ethnicity, profile First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and explore the New Deal's transformative agencies for their economic and social ramifications and the constitutional revolution they triggered. A chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index are also provided.
The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism
Author: Sidney M. MilkisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
These essays examine the policies and programs of LBJ's Great Society, and the ideological and political shifts that changed the nature of liberalism. Some essays focus on Lyndon Johnson himself and the institution of the modern presidency, others on specific reform measures, and others on the impact of these initiatives in the following decades.
Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 + 1912 Election and the Power of Progressivism
Author: Richard PolenbergPublisher: Bedford/st Martins
ISBN: 9780312469245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 and US War With Mexico + Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America and Black Americans in the Revolutionary Era + Great Awakening and Democracy in America and A Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War 2e
Author: Richard PolenbergPublisher: Bedford/st Martins
ISBN: 9781457640971
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages :
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Prisoners of Hope
Author: Randall Bennett WoodsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780465098712
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society was breathtaking in its scope and dramatic in its impact. Over the course of his time in office, Johnson passed over one thousand pieces of legislation designed to address an extraordinary array of social issues. Poverty and racial injustice were foremost among them, but the Great Society included legislation on issues ranging from health care to immigration to education and environmental protection. But while the Great Society was undeniably ambitious, it was by no means perfect. In Prisoners of Hope, prize-winning historian Randall B. Woods presents the first comprehensive history of the Great Society, exploring both the breathtaking possibilities of visionary politics, as well as its limits. Soon after becoming president, Johnson achieved major legislative victories with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But he wasn't prepared for the substantial backlash that ensued. Community Action Programs were painted as dangerously subversive, at worst a forum for minority criminals and at best a conduit through which the federal government and the inner city poor could bypass the existing power structure. Affirmative action was rife with controversy, and the War on Poverty was denounced by conservatives as the cause of civil disorder and disregard for the law. As opposition, first from white conservatives, but then also some liberals and African Americans, mounted, Johnson was forced to make a number of devastating concessions in order to secure the future of the Great Society. Even as many Americans benefited, millions were left disappointed, from suburban whites to the new anti-war left to African Americans. The Johnson administration's efforts to draw on aspects of the Great Society to build a viable society in South Vietnam ultimately failed, and as the war in Vietnam descended into quagmire, the president's credibility plummeted even further. A cautionary tale about the unintended consequences of even well-intentioned policy, Prisoners of Hope offers a nuanced portrait of America's most ambitious--and controversial--domestic policy agenda since the New Deal.
Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 + Movements of the New Left, + Age of Mccarthyism 2e + Rise of Conservatism in America
Author: Richard D. PolenbergPublisher: Bedford/st Martins
ISBN: 9780312546311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Prisoners of Hope
Author: Randall B. WoodsPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465050963
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society was breathtaking in its scope and dramatic in its impact. Over the course of his time in office, Johnson passed over one thousand pieces of legislation designed to address an extraordinary array of social issues. Poverty and racial injustice were foremost among them, but the Great Society included legislation on issues ranging from health care to immigration to education and environmental protection. But while the Great Society was undeniably ambitious, it was by no means perfect. In Prisoners of Hope, prize-winning historian Randall B. Woods presents the first comprehensive history of the Great Society, exploring both the breathtaking possibilities of visionary politics, as well as its limits. Soon after becoming president, Johnson achieved major legislative victories with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But he wasn't prepared for the substantial backlash that ensued. Community Action Programs were painted as dangerously subversive, at worst a forum for minority criminals and at best a conduit through which the federal government and the inner city poor could bypass the existing power structure. Affirmative action was rife with controversy, and the War on Poverty was denounced by conservatives as the cause of civil disorder and disregard for the law. As opposition, first from white conservatives, but then also some liberals and African Americans, mounted, Johnson was forced to make a number of devastating concessions in order to secure the future of the Great Society. Even as many Americans benefited, millions were left disappointed, from suburban whites to the new anti-war left to African Americans. The Johnson administration's efforts to draw on aspects of the Great Society to build a viable society in South Vietnam ultimately failed, and as the war in Vietnam descended into quagmire, the president's credibility plummeted even further. A cautionary tale about the unintended consequences of even well-intentioned policy, Prisoners of Hope offers a nuanced portrait of America's most ambitious—and controversial—domestic policy agenda since the New Deal.
The Fall of the House of Roosevelt
Author: Michael JanewayPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231131089
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In the 1930s and 1940s a band of smart and able young men-Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe-helped Franklin D. Roosevelt build the modern American state and a progressive political coalition that seemed invincible. These junior officers of the New Deal numbered among their favorite members of Congress the young Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. For thirty years, through LBJ's own presidency, they functioned as his intimate "kitchen cabinet."Michael Janeway grew up with an insider view of these brokers of ideas and power because his father, economist and journalist Eliot Janeway, was a member of their circle. Janeway crafts a riveting account of how these men worked together to fuse reform impulses in the social sciences and law with political advancement. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting.