Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
"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.
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