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Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society (American Ways Series)

by John A. Andrew III (Author)
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Product Details

  • Series: American Ways Series
  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Ivan R. Dee (February 9, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1566631858
  • ISBN-13: 978-1566631853
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #290,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 starsFinally a Book that Focuses on Great Society Programs
By Alexander Tsesis on December 7, 1999
Format: Hardcover
Andrew has written an interesting and informative book about some of the programs that created vital opportunities for indigent people to escape poverty. Andrew discusses the key laws Johnson passed to improve the lives of Americans, including Civil Rights Act of 1964, Medicaid, Medicare, Head Start and many others. As a historical account of legislative acts it is excellent, and on that point it deserves five stars. However, when Andrew discusses how the Great Society affect later laws, the book becomes quite week. In fact it seems like Andrew wrote the bulk of the work in the eighties and only later interspersed a few sentences about the nineties. The index is also a bit sparse and could have been more detailed. This book is, nevertheless, a good read and deserves the attention of persons interested in the Johnson administration.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA Decent Look at the Great Society
By Todd Carlsen on March 18, 2004
Format: Hardcover
This book looks at the government policy view of Great Society programs. It is flawed in that it detaches the Great Society legislation from LBJ's political skills, the nation at the time, and the political environment at the time.
Many Great Society programs have provided a hand-up to success, better medical care, less polution, and much more. I would rank college funding very high, along with health care for the elderly.
However, the book details that Great Society was also misguided in some ways. The urban renewal programs were flops. CAP and Model Cities come to mind as being especially inept. It was these Great Society programs that Reagan railed against as "big government, and correctly so.
Hoever, much of the Great Society was a great success. High school graduation rates doubled, and college graduations tripled. Poverty was almost cut in half, even if the underlying caused sometimes remained (Johnson failed in his proposal to reform welfare). Head Start has helped tens of millions of children prepare for school. Pollution of the air, soil, and water was greatly reduced. Mass transit we take for granted in many cities was built.
Medicare has served a couple hundred million people, when before few elderly people had health care of any kind. The number of doctors graduating doubled. Good medical centers became far more widespread, and medical excellence in our society reached new heights through research and funding. Life expectancy has jumped substantially. We owe our advances in medicine in large part to the programs of the Great Society.
The National Endowment for the Arts has greatly expanded the arts in the nation. And how about public TV?
So there were successes, and there were failures.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Affluent Society begat the Great Society
By Scrapple8 on September 3, 2015
Format: Paperback
Everybody knows that Lyndon Baines Johnson took over as president of the United States for John F. Kennedy after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Johnson was elected to the presidency in his own right in November 1964, by a large margin over Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater. Near the beginning of his political career, Johnson was called ‘landslide Lyndon’ as a joke because of the narrow margin of his victory in a Senatorial campaign, but now the term accurately described Johnson’s mandate. Unfortunately, the mandate failed to last, the dream soon died, and hope faded away. Johnson became vastly unpopular due to his escalation of the War in Vietnam, his secrecy in his decisions to escalate the war and hide its costs, and the images of body-bags on the nightly news broadcasts. Some of that unpopularity seeped into the public’s view of Johnson’s domestic program, particularly his Great Society. Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society by John Andrew III is a wonderful overview of Johnson’s idealistic vision for America.

Andrew broke up the Great Society into five chapters: 1) From Civil Rights to Race, 2) The War on Poverty, 3) Health and Education, 4) Model Cities, and 5) Quality of Life. A final chapter assessed the Great Society, in which the author corrected ‘an attempt to demonize the past and influence history.’

Quality of Life actually encompassed several issues: consumer rights, beautification & environmental protection, the arts & humanities, and crime. Some of the other chapters contain overlapping issues too.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn amazing book
By anngillian on December 13, 2013
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This book blew my mind. I had to read it for my social policy class and it depressed me. The politics of the time, lack of support and mismanagement of funds and of course the civil rights movements, black rights and the continuance of the welfare state and its new face. madness.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Book!!!
By Cliente de Amazon on January 13, 2009
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Before I read this book, my knowledge of Lyndon Johnson's Presidency was slim. This book is great, it describes the Great Society Programs during the Johnson Administration (1963-1969), as well as their outcome. The book is a good source for readers interested in presidential history, the Johnson Administration, or history in general.
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