The fierce urgency of now : Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the battle for the Great Society
Julian E. Zelizer
Bok · Engelsk · 2015
| Omfang | 370 sider, 32 unummererte plansjer : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | The challenges of a liberal presidency -- Deadlocked democracy -- New president, same old Congress -- Legislating civil rights -- How Barry Goldwater built the Great Society -- The fabulous Eighty-Ninth Congress -- Congressional conservatism revived -- The triumph of austerity politics -- The endurance of the Great Society.. - "Zelizer takes the full measure of the entire story [of Johnson's liberal agenda] in all its epic sweep. Before Johnson, Kennedy tried and failed to achieve many of these advances. Our practiced understanding is that this was an unprecedented liberal hour in America, a moment, after Kennedy's death, when the seas parted and Johnson could simply stroll through to victory. As Zelizer shows, this view is off-base: in many respects America was even more conservative than it seems now, and Johnson's legislative program faced bitter resistance" -
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| ISBN | 9780143128014. - 9781594204340
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