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.
This volume is intended to demonstrate how opposition to the war in Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the national security state crystallized in a variety of different and often divergent political traditions. Indeed, for many of the figures discussed, dissent was a decidedly conservative act in that they felt that the war threatened ...
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 ...
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, 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.
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