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Introduction: Mark Atwood Lawrence and Mark K. Updegrove; 1. LBJ: the man as president Marc J. Selverstone; 2. LBJ and the contours of American liberalism Julian E. Zelizer; 3. Lyndon Johnson and the transformation of cold war conservatism Nicole Hemmer; 4. The great society and the beloved community: Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the partnership that transformed a nation Peniel E. Joseph; 5. Lyndon Johnson, Mexican Americans and the border Geraldo Cadava; 6. The war on poverty: how qualitative liberalism prevailed Joshua Zeitz; 7. LBJ's supreme court Laura Kalman; 8. 'If I cannot get a whole loaf, I will get what bread I can': LBJ and the Hart-Celler immigration act of 1965 Madeline Y. Hsu; 9. 'It's always hard to cut losses': the politics of escalation in Vietnam Fredrik Logevall; 10. Lyndon Johnson and the shifting global order Francis J. Gavin; 11. 'Through a narrow glass': compassion, power and Lyndon Johnson's Sheyda Jahanbani; 12. Afterword: LBJ's America Melody C. Barnes; Index.
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Mark Atwood Lawrence is an award-winning historian who's taught for two decades at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library. His books include The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era, which won the highest book award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.Mark K. Updegrove is a presidential historian for ABC News and author of five books on the presidency, including most recently Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency. He is a former director of the LBJ Presidential Library and now serves as President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation.
