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1	They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 more books like this by David Maraniss add to wishlist In this Vietnam War-era history, journalist David Maraniss reports on two out-of-control events that provide a window into the American experience of those times. On October 17, 1967, a squad of American soldiers was ambushed while on routine patrol, resulting in the loss of over 50 lives. On the next day, in Madison, Wisconsin, a student ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years more books like this by David Talbot add to wishlist For decades, books about John or Robert Kennedy have woven either a shimmering tale of Camelot gallantry or a tawdry story of runaway ambition and reckless personal behaviour. But the real story of the Kennedys in the 1960s has long been submerged - until now. In Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, David Talbot sheds a dramatic new ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	LBJ: Architect of American Ambition more books like this by Randall Woods add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.30! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President more books like this by Robert Dallek add to wishlist Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $6.59! \| SVS
5	The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America more books like this by Thurston Clarke add to wishlist Clarke provides an absorbing historical narrative of the action-packed 82 days of Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign as well as the heightened personal, racial, and political dramas of the time. see all copies from $4.43! new only from $6.88! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson's Final Days in Office more books like this by Horace Busby, Hugh Sidey (Introduction by), Scott Busby (Preface by) add to wishlist One of President Lyndon Johnson's most trusted advisors and speechwriters, Horace Busby, shares his memoirs of his time with the president, including such historically significant events as the assassination of Kennedy and Johnson's 1968 speech in which he announced he would not seek another term. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	JFK and LBJ: The Influence of Personality Upon Politics more books like this by Tom Wicker add to wishlist Wicker explores the influence of personality upon politics and explains why John F. Kennedy, the popular president, failed to push his legislative program through Congress, and why Lyndon Johnson, the consummate domestic politican, squandered his great consensus in an unpopular war in Vietnam. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.62! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election more books like this by Walter LaFeber add to wishlist In "The Deadly Bet", distinguished historian Walter LaFeber explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. Looking through the eyes of the year's most important players including Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, Nguyen ... see all copies from $15.08! new only from $15.08! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties more books like this by Harris Wofford add to wishlist When former public servant and college president Harris Wofford soundly defeated former governor and US Attorney General Dick Thornburgh for the US Senate in a 1991 special Pennsylvania election, it made national and international news, but few Pennsylvanians or Americans recognised Wofford's name. Yet Wofford had been a special assistant to ... see all copies from $2.98! new only from $18.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Polemics and prophecies, 1967-1970 more books like this by I F Stone add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents more books like this by Bruce J Schulman add to wishlist This is a treatment of the major events of Lyndon Johnson's career with a central focus on his role as the emblematic figure in the rise and fall of postwar American liberalism. The volume contains 15 documents - Johnson's own speeches and assessments of the president and his programmes by contemporaries and later scholars - that give students the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists more books like this by Mary Susannah Robbins (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of essays by peace activists includes writings by the famous, such as Joan Baez and Daniel Berrigan, as well as lesser-known Americans from a variety of experiences, including the military. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.98! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson more books like this by Vaughn Davis Bornet add to wishlist This comprehensive account of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential administration chronicles the unfolding of a truly formative American presidency. Bornet includes two chapters on Vietnam issues an one on LBJ's relations with the media. This volume is in the highly regarded American Presidency Series. see all copies from $4.10! new only from $16.49! \| SVS
14 view cover	Polemics and Prophecies, 1967-1970: A Nonconformist History of Our Times more books like this by I F Stone add to wishlist A collection of newspaper columns from the late 1960s in which Stone turns his attention to the most turbulent period of our recent past. This period included the Vietnam War, the Tet offensive and the US intervention in Cambodia. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.16! \| SVS
15	LBJ: The White House Years more books like this by Harry Middleton add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Unholy Hymnal more books like this by Albert Eugene Kahn add to wishlist see all copies from $3.87! new only from $8.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	R.F.K.: A Photographer's Journal more books like this by Harry Benson (Photographer) add to wishlist As a friend, advisor, and attorney general to his brother, John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy stood at the heart of Washington politics. He is remembered today as a compassionate, articulate, and optimistic mana friend to the poor, an avid civil rights advocate, a champion for peace. World-renowned photojournalist Harry Bensons images capture ... see all copies from $15.77! new only from $18.33! \| SVS
18 view cover	All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 Presidential Election more books like this by Robert David Johnson add to wishlist All the Way with LBJ mines an extraordinarily rich but underutilized source - the full range of LBJ tapes - to analyze the 1964 presidential campaign and the political culture of the mid-1960s. The president achieved a smashing victory over a divided Republican Party, which initially considered Henry Cabot Lodge II, then US ambassador to South ... see all copies from $19.41! new only from $19.41! \| SVS
19	The emerging Democratic majority; lessons and legacies from the new politics more books like this by Lanny J. Davis add to wishlist see all copies from $4.20! new only from $19.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	The resurrection of Richard Nixon. more books like this by Jules Witcover add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21 view cover	The Voice of Violence: Performative Violence as Protest in the Vietnam Era more books like this by Joel P Rhodes add to wishlist This is a comparative and interdisciplinary study of how radicals at local level, staged, displayed, and narrated acts of "performative violence" against the symbols of American society in the Vietnam era. see all copies from $33.53! new only from $122.47!
22	Rolling Thunder: Understanding Policy and Program Failure more books like this by James Clay Thompson add to wishlist see all copies from $2.95!
23 view cover	Piercing the Bamboo Curtain: Tentative Bridge-Building to China During the Johnson Years more books like this by Michael Lumbers add to wishlist This new study is the first comprehensive account of U.S. Policy toward China during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, a critical phase of the Cold War immediately preceding the dramatic Sino-American rapprochement of the early 1970s. Based on a thorough review of a wide array of recently declassified government documents, this book offers a fresh ... see all copies from $82.42! new only from $86.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Home Front in the Vietnam War more books like this by William Thomas add to wishlist A detailed look at the Vietnam War from the point of view of Americans who lived and served throughout the conflict. Drawing on firsthand accounts and contemporary reports, each book includes archival photographs, many of them in color, plus a time line of significant dates, informative maps, and primary-source quotations. see all copies from $5.27! new only from $28.15! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson more books like this by The Miller Center, Kent Germany (Editor), Robert David Johnson (Editor) add to wishlist Lyndon B. Johnson secretly recorded 700 hours of telephone conversations as president. With these volumes, the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs begins a groundbreaking series that will ultimately include annotated transcripts of all of Johnson's White House conversations. see all copies from $110.12! new only from $110.12! \| SVS

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