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Bernstein Irving <1916-2001.> |
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Titolo |
Guns or butter [[electronic resource] ] : the presidency of Lyndon Johnson / / Irving Bernstein |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-12137-9 |
9786613121370 |
0-19-987431-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (649 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Presidents - United States |
United States Politics and government 1963-1969 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-575) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; PROLOGUE: THE VICE PRESIDENCY; I: CARETAKER OF JOHN F. KENNEDY'S LEGACY; II: LYNDON JOHNSON-""THE GREAT, FABULOUS 89TH CONGRESS""; III: LYNDON JOHNSON-EMBATTLED, BESIEGED, UNDERMINED; IV: CODA; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The presidency of Lyndon Johnson was a pivotal moment in twentieth-century American history. From the decisive social programs of the Great Society, to the triumph of the Civil and Voting Rights Acts, to the catastrophe of the Vietnam War and domestic unrest, it was an era of dramatic accomplishment and wrenching tragedy. In Guns or Butter, renowned historian Irving Bernstein brings those five climactic years of the sixties vividly to life, from the moment Lee Harvey Oswald aimed a rifle from the window of the Texas School Depository to the tense ballot-counting that put Richard Nixon in the W |
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