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LBJ's 1968 : power, politics, and the presidency in America's year of upheaval
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ISBN: 1108140572 1108140378 110814120X 1107193036 1316643476 9781108141208 9781108140379 9781107193031 9781316643471 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads his readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'. Longley explores how LBJ perceived the most significant events of 1968, including the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Kennedy, and the violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago. His responses to the crises were sometimes effective but often tragic, and LBJ's refusal to seek re-election underscores his recognition of the challenges facing the country in 1968. As much a biography of a single year as it is of LBJ, LBJ's 1968 vividly captures the tumult that dominated the headlines on a local and global level.

A 'special relationship'? : Harold Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson and Anglo-American relations 'at the summit', 1964-68
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ISBN: 0719070104 9786610719624 1280719621 1847791077 9781526137203 9781847791078 9781280719622 1526137208 Year: 2018 Publisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press,

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This is the first full-length study of the fraught and controversial personal relationship between Prime Minister Harold Wilson and President Lyndon B Johnson, placed in the context of such issues as the Vietnam War, British economic weakness and the UK's dissociation from American measures in Vietnam.

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