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Historical dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson era
- Title
- Historical dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson era / Richard Dean Burns, Joseph M. Siracusa.
- Author
- Burns, Richard Dean.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Siracusa, Joseph M.
- Description
- xxix, 396 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- In the history of the United States, few periods could more justly be regarded as the best and worst of times than the Kennedy-Johnson era. The arrival of John F. Kennedy in the White House in 1961 unleashed an unprecedented wave of hope and optimism in a large segment of the population-a wave that would come crashing down when he was assassinated only a few years later. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, enjoyed less popularity, but he was one of the most experienced and skilled presidents the country had ever seen and he promised a Great Society to rival Kennedy's New Frontier. Both presidents were embroiled in foreign policy disasters: Kennedy with the Bay of Pigs fiasco, although he came out ahead on the Cuban missile crisis, and Johnson by the backlash of the Vietnam War. The 1960s witnessed unprecedented progress toward racial and sexual equality, but it also played host to race and urban riots. And while impressive advances in the sciences and arts fueled the American imagination, the counterculture rejected it all. Historical Dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson Era relates these events and provides extensive political, economic, and social background on this era through a detailed chronology an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on important people, events, institutions, policies, and issues. - Publisher.
- Series Statement
- Historical dictionaries of U.S. historical eras ; no. 8
- Uniform Title
- Historical dictionaries of U.S. historical eras ; no. 8.
- Alternative Title
- Kennedy-Johnson era
- Subjects
- United States
- United States > Politics and government > 1963-1969 > Dictionaries
- United States > History > 1961-1969 > Dictionaries
- Dictionaries
- Social conditions
- United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980 > Dictionaries
- Politics and government
- 1960-1980
- United States > Politics and government > 1961-1963 > Dictionaries
- History
- Genre/Form
- Dictionaries.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-393).
- Contents
- Editor's foreword / Jon Woronoff -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The dictionary -- Appendix A: List of officials, elections, Congresses -- Appendix B: Constitutional amendments -- Appendix C: John F. Kennedy's addresses -- Appendix D: Lyndon B. Johnson's addresses -- Appendix E: Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech ["I have a dream"] -- Selected bibliography -- About the authors.
- Call Number
- E841
- ISBN
- 9780810858428
- 0810858428
- LCCN
- 2007022870
- 2608045
- OCLC
- 144598077
- Author
- Burns, Richard Dean.
- Title
- Historical dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson era / Richard Dean Burns, Joseph M. Siracusa.
- Imprint
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Historical dictionaries of U.S. historical eras ; no. 8Historical dictionaries of U.S. historical eras ; no. 8.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-393).
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1960-1980
- Added Author
- Siracusa, Joseph M.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Burns, Richard Dean. Historical dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson era. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007 (OCoLC)593346184Online version: Burns, Richard Dean. Historical dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson era. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007 (OCoLC)608412295
- Other Standard Identifier
- 2608045
- Research Call Number
- *R-USLHG E841 .B85 2007