A masterful account of Lyndon Johnson and America’s fall into Vietnam by one of our finest historians, filled with fresh interpretations, deft portraits, and new perspectives. “Absolutely terrific...s
Lyndon Johnson brought to the presidency a political outlook nurtured by New Deal liberalism and the idea of government intervention for the public good. In his desire to make that idea work at home
The war within the war was the struggle among Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin for the shape of the world that would follow World War II. That delicate diplomacy is traced and analyzed in Lloyd Gardne