The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society

Autori

• Julian E. Zelizer

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Pagine

384pagine

Tempo di lettura

14ore

• Biografie e pensieri
• Politica
• Saggistica
• Scienze politiche & Politica
• Storia

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"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"--Amazon.com.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2015

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