02512nam 2200577 a 450 991046162360332120200520144314.01-283-12137-997866131213700-19-987431-X(CKB)2670000000092851(EBL)716668(OCoLC)729244799(SSID)ssj0000523042(PQKBManifestationID)11333384(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523042(PQKBWorkID)10540175(PQKB)10121031(MiAaPQ)EBC716668(Au-PeEL)EBL716668(CaPaEBR)ebr10472299(CaONFJC)MIL312137(EXLCZ)99267000000009285119941207d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGuns or butter[electronic resource] the presidency of Lyndon Johnson /Irving BernsteinNew York Oxford University Press19961 online resource (649 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-506312-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-575) and index.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; IndexThe 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 WPresidentsUnited StatesBiographyUnited StatesPolitics and government1963-1969Electronic books.Presidents973.923/092BBernstein Irving1916-2001.969707MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461623603321Guns or butter2203670UNINA