Historical Dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson Era

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson Era covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about John F. Kennedy.

List of contents

Editor's Foreword, Jon Woronoff
Preface
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chronology
THE DICTIONARY
Appendix 1 Lists of Officials, Elections, Congresses
Appendix 2 Constitutional Amendments
Appendix 3 John F. Kennedy's Addresses
Appendix 4 Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech
Appendix 5 Lyndon B. Johnson's Addresses
Bibliography
About the Authors

About the author

Richard Dean Burns, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Los Angeles, is an internationally recognized scholar who designed and edited the three-volume Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament (Scribners, 1993) that received national awards. Earlier, he co-authored Disarmament in Perspective, 1919-1913, 4 vols. (U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency, 1968) and compiled Arms Control & Disarmament: A Bibliography (ABC-Clio, 1977) the first such modern bibliography. He authored Evolution of Arms Control: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age (Praeger, 2009) and The Missile Defense Systems of George W. Bush (Praeger, 2010). And co-authored Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev: Revisiting the end of the Cold War (Praeger, 2008), followed by America and the Cold War, 1941-1991: A Realist Interpretation, 2 vols. (Praeger, 2010).

Summary

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson Era covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about John F. Kennedy.

Product details

• Authors: Richard D Burns, Richard D. Burns, Richard D. Siracusa Burns, Richard Dean Burns, Richard Dean Siracusa Burns, Burns Richard Dean, Joseph M Siracusa, Joseph M. Siracusa, Siracusa Joseph M.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2015
• EAN: 9781442237919
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3791-9
• No. of pages: 490
• Series: Historical Dictionaries of U.S; Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Reference, Reference works, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1960 to c 1969