The deadly bet : LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election /

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"Lyndon B. Johnson made a life-or-death bet during his presidential term - and lost. While fighting an extended war against a determined foe, he gambled that American society could also endure a vast array of domestic reforms. The result was the turmoil of the 1968 presidential election, a cris...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: LaFeber, Walter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2005.
Series:Vietnam--America in the war years (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Johnson, Lyndon B. > (Lyndon Baines), > 1908-1973.
Johnson, Lyndon B. > (Lyndon Baines), > 1908-1973
Johnson, Lyndon B.
1961-1975
Presidents > United States > Election > 1968.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Politics and government
Presidents > Election
Präsidentenwahl
Vietnamkrieg
United States > Politics and government > 1963-1969.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1963-1969.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • General William Westmoreland : the Tet offensive
  • Senator Eugene McCarthy : the college student crusade
  • Lyndon Johnson : "people grow tired of confusion"
  • Martin Luther King : the dream
  • Robert Kennedy : the "national soul"
  • Richard Nixon : the candidate from Squaresville?
  • Hubert Horatio Humphrey : the isolation of the politics of joy
  • George Wallace : the populism of the Vietnam war era
  • Nguyen Van Thieu : a merry-go-round in a chamber of horrors.

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