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Article: Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson.(Review)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson. Edited by H. H. Brands. (CollegeStation: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. Pp. 194. $29.95.)
This study challenges the standard interpretation of Lyndon Johnson as a president far more concerned with domestic rather than foreign policy, and one who allowed Vietnam to dominate his approach to world affairs. The collection of seven essays by such experts as Robert McMahon and William O. Walker III takes a critical look at a wide range of issues, from disarmament talks with the Soviet Union to American intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965, but are linked by the desire to answer two fundamental ...