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The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson Beyond Vietnam Edited by H. W. Brands |
American political scholarship has so focused on Vietnam that little attention has been paid to Johnson's foreign policy in other regions of the world. Recently some scholars have moved beyond Vietnam to examine other aspects of American dealings with the world during the Johnson years. In this volume, H. W. Brands has gathered the work of some of the most important of these scholars, not only addressing regions other than Vietnam but also asking important analytic questions about Johnson's foreign policies.
- Robert Dallek, a Johnson biographer, evaluates the president as a world leader.
- Thomas A. Schwartz reexamines Johnson's policies toward Europe, concluding that those policies were "among the most important achievements of his
presidency."
- John Prados argues that Johnson deserves more credit for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) than he has previously been given.
- William O. Walker III, analyzes the relationship between the United States and Cuba during Johnson's presidency.
- Peter Felten explains the complicated tangle of U.S.-Dominican relations and Johnson's role in establishing the parameters of U.S. policy.
- In "Nasser Delenda Est," Douglas Little examines the principal Middle Eastern crisis of the Johnson years, the Six Day War.
- Robert J. McMahon investigates American relations with three Asian allies: Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines.
H. W. BRANDS is a professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of more than a dozen books on U.S. history and foreign relations, including T.R.: The Last Romantic and What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy.
Number One: Foreign Relations and the Presidency
The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson
ISBN 0-89096-873-X cloth $29.95s
6 1/8 x 9 1/4. 224 pp. Index.
Presidential Studies. Political Science.
Diplomatic History.
Publication Date: July 1999.
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