Bibliograph

Building the Great Society, inside Lyndon Johnson's White House, Joshua Zeitz

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Building the Great Society, inside Lyndon Johnson's White House, Joshua Zeitz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-361) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Building the Great Society

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Joshua Zeitz

Sub title

inside Lyndon Johnson's White House

Summary

LBJ's towering political skills and his ambitious slate of liberal legislation are the stuff of legend: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and environmental reform. But what happened after the bills passed? One man could not and did not go it alone. Joshua Zeitz reanimates the creative and contentious atmosphere inside Johnson's White House as a talented and energetic group of advisers made LBJ's vision a reality. They desegregated public and private institutions throughout one third of the United States; built Medicare and Medicaid from the ground up in one year; launched federal funding for public education; provided food support for millions of poor children and adults; and launched public television and radio, all in the space of five years, even as Vietnam strained the administration's credibility and budget

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