Tall and powerfully built, Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of conflicting insecurities and ambitions - a white Southerner who championed civil rights and a self-made rich man who declared 'unconditional war on poverty'. In this epic biography, historian Randall Woods draws on exclusive interviews and a treasure trove of White House tapes and ...
J. William Fulbright was a U.S. Senator from 1944 to 1974. For 15 of those years, he was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and he exerted a strong influence on U.S. foreign policy. Although he introduced the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and shepherded its passage through the Senate, he later became one of the leading ...
This title looks at international, political, cultural and socio-economic problems of post-war America, and considers patterns of immigration and migration as part of the exploration of the American peoples desire to find a sense of self, both individually, communally and as a nation.
J. William Fulbright was the longest serving and most powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was also the most prominent, and the most effective, of the first American critics of the Vietnam War. Fulbright's criticism was particularly galling and damning to Lyndon Johnson because Fulbright was a principled internationalist ...
A concise narrative text aimed at the mid-level US history student. The format combines and synchronizes the concept of a textbook with that of a reader by linking a basic narrative text with articles that both support and build upon the text. This combined format enables students to relate interpretation to narrative and exposes them to ...
A concise narrative text aimed at the mid-level US history student. The format combines and synchronizes the concept of a textbook with that of a reader by linking a basic narrative text with articles that both support and build upon the text. This combined format enables students to relate interpretation to narrative and exposes them to ...
This is a remarkable achievement. It is a comprehensive account of the transfer of power from Britain to the United States and the first study grounded in now available official records and private papers on both sides of the Atlantic. A Changing of the Guards is an exhaustive and compelling analysis.
Concise, readable narrative text aimed at the mid-level introductory American history student. This book is ideal for instructors concerned both about cost and brevity. Particular attention is paid to the formation, transformation, interaction and disintergration of national, regional, ethnic, and economic communities.
This concise, accessible narrative text for students of U.S. history combines and synchronizes the concept of a textbook with that of a reader. Linking narrative with articles that support and build on the text, this book enables students to relate interpretation to narrative and exposes them to historical analysis in a meaningful way. This text ...
Concise, readable narrative text aimed at the mid-level introductory American history student. This book is ideal for instructors concerned both about cost and brevity. Particular attention is paid to the formation, interaction, and disintegration of national, regional, ethnic, and economic communities.
THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE is a concise narrative that focuses on events, personalities, and movements that have figured prominently in the shaping of the nation. Particular attention is paid to the formation, transformation, interaction, and disintegration of national, regional, ethnic, and economic communities.
Describing and analyzing the social, cultural, economic and political make-up of the communities that constitute America, the authors use the themes of Republicanism, geographic expansion, economic growth, social change and reform, and international involvement.
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