02452nam 2200565 a 450 991080803250332120230421053614.01-283-12137-997866131213700-19-987431-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 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 government1963-1969Presidents973.923/092BBernstein Irving1916-2001.1656143MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808032503321Guns or butter4008833UNINA