The Lyndon B. Johnson bibliography includes major books and articles about President Lyndon B. Johnson, his life, and presidential administration. Kent B. Germany in his review of the historiography noted in 2009 that Johnson has been the subject of 250 Ph.D. dissertations, well over one hundred books, and many scholarly articles. The New York Times and the Washington Post published 7600 articles on him during his presidency.[1] Only a select subgroup are listed here, chiefly those reviewed by the major scholarly journals. Germany emphasizes the decline of Johnson's reputation:
The man who was elected to the White House by one of the widest margins in U.S. history and pushed through as much legislation as any other American politician now seems to be remembered best by the public for succeeding an assassinated hero, steering the country into a quagmire in Vietnam, cheating on his saintly wife, exposing his stitched-up belly, using profanity, picking up dogs by their ears, swimming naked with advisers in the White House pool, and emptying his bowels while conducting official business. Of all those issues, Johnson's reputation suffers the most from his management of the Vietnam War, something that has overshadowed his civil rights and domestic policy accomplishments and caused Johnson himself to regret his handling of "the woman I really loved--the Great Society."[2]
Lerner, Mitchell B. A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson (2012), 29 scholarly articles with an emphasis on historiography excerpt
Biographiesedit
External videos
Booknotes interview with Robert Caro on Means of Ascent, April 29, 1990, C-SPAN
Caro, Robert A.The Years of Lyndon Johnson (4 volumes as of 2012): The Path to Power (1982); Means of Ascent (1990); Master of the Senate (2002); The Passage of Power (2012). The most detailed biography, extends to early 1964.
External videos
Booknotes interview with Robert Dallek on Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960, September 22, 1991, C-SPAN
Dallek, Robert. Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960 (1991); Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973 (1998); also: Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President (2004). A 400-page abridged version of his 2 volume scholarly biography.
Fernlund, Kevin J. Lyndon B. Johnson and Modern America (Vol. 25 of The Oklahoma Western Biographies). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. A short study of Johnson's career, with an emphasis on Texas and the American West (175 pages).
Divine, Robert A., ed. The Johnson Years. Vol. 1: Foreign Policy, the Great Society and the White House. 1981; essays by scholars; excerpt
Divine, Robert A., ed. The Johnson Years. Vol. 2: Vietnam, the Environment, and Science. 1987; essays by scholars
Divine, Robert A., ed. The Johnson Years. Vol. 3: LBJ at Home and Abroad. 1994; essays by scholars
Ellis, Sylvia. Freedom's Pragmatist: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013.
Finley, Keith M. Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938-1965 (Baton Rouge, LSU Press, 2008).
Firestone, Bernard J., and Robert C. Vogt, eds. Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Uses of Power. (1988); essays by scholars
External videos
Booknotes interview with Jeff Shesol on Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy and the Feud that Defined a Decade, November 30, 1997, C-SPAN
Gould, Lewis L. Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment. 1988.
Hodgson, Godfrey. JFK and LBJ: The Last Two Great Presidents (Yale UP, 2015) excerpt
Kalman, Laura. The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Kesler, Charles, Alexander Riley, and Christopher Ellis. "Rethinking the Great Society and the LBJ Presidency: Charles Kesler." in Reflecting on the 1960s at 50 (Routledge, 2020) pp. 54–66.
Lichtenstein, Nelson, ed. Political Profiles: The Johnson Years. 1976. short biographies of 400+ key politicians.
Longley, Kyle. LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval (2018) excerpt
Mann, Robert. The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights. 1996.
Redford, Emmette S., and Marlan Blissett. Organizing the Executive Branch: The Johnson Presidency. 1981.
Shesol, Jeff. Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Shaped a Decade 1997.
Unger, IrwinThe Best of Intentions: the triumphs and failures of the Great Society under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon: Doubleday, 1996 ISBN0-385-46833-4
White, Theodore H. The Making of the President, 1964 1965.
Woods, Randall B. Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism (2016), 480pp., a scholarly history.
Zarefsky, David. President Johnson's War On Poverty: Rhetoric and History (2nd ed. 2005). excerpt
Zeitz, Joshua. Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House (2018) excerpt
Zelizer, Julian E. The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (2015) excerpt
Foreign policyedit
Andrew, Christopher. For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush (1995), pp 307–49.
Brands, H. W. The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power (1997)
Brands, H. W. The foreign policies of Lyndon Johnson : beyond Vietnam (1999) online
Cohen, Warren I., and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, eds. Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World: American Foreign Policy 1963-1968 (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Colman, Jonathan. The Foreign Policy of Lyndon B. Johnson: The United States and the World, 1963–1969 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) 231 pp. [* Colman, Jonathan. The Foreign Policy of Lyndon B. Johnson: The United States and the World, 1963–1969 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) 231 pp. online
Gavin, Francis J. and Mark Atwood Lawrence, eds. Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s ((Oxford University Press, 2014) 301 pp.
Kunz, Diane B. ed. The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade: American Foreign Relations During the 1960s (1994)
Preston, Thomas. The President and His Inner Circle: Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Affairs (2001)
Vietnamedit
Barrett, David Marshall. Advice and Dissent: An Organizational Analysis of the Evolution of Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam Advisory System, 1965–1968. (University of Notre Dame, 1990)
Berman, Larry. Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam (1991) online
Casey, Francis Michael. The Vietnam Policy of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in Response to the Theory of the Protracted Conflict as Applied in the Politics of Indochina: A Case Study of Threat Perception and Assessment in the Crisis Management Process of a Pluralistic Society. (Claremont Graduate University, 1976)
Cherwitz, Richard Arnold. The Rhetoric of the Gulf of Tonkin: A Study of the Crisis Speaking of President Lyndon B. Johnson. (University of Iowa, 1978)
Goodnight, Lisa Jo. The Conservative Voice of a Liberal President: An Analysis of Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Rhetoric. (Purdue University, 1993)
Kaiser, David E. American tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the origins of the Vietnam War. (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000) ISBN0-674-00225-3
Logevall, Fredrik Bengt Johan. Fear to Negotiate: Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War, 1963–1965. (Yale University, 1993)
Schandler, Herbert Y. Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: The unmaking of a president (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Turner, Kathleen Jane. The Effect of Presidential-Press Interaction on Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam War Rhetoric. (Purdue University, 1978)
Vandiver, Frank E. Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's Wars (1997)
Historiographyedit
Germany, Kent B. "Historians and the Many Lyndon Johnsons: A Review Essay" Journal of Southern History (2009) 75#4 pp 1001–1028. in JSTOR
Lerner, Mitchell B. A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson (2012), 29 scholarly articles with an emphasis on historiography excerpt
Primary sourcesedit
Avner, YehudaThe Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership (2010). Chapter 14, Deep in the Heart of Texas, ISBN978-1-59264-278-6
Barrett David M. "Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection" (1997). Documents from LBJ Library and other archives.
Beschloss Michael R. Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963–1964 (1997). Transcribed recordings of LBJ's phone calls.
Califano Joseph A., Jr. The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson (1991). By a former aide.
Gallup, George H. ed. The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1935–1971, volume 3: 1959–1971 (1972). Summary of poll data.
Johnson Lyndon B. The Vantage Point: Perspectives on the Presidency, 1963–1969 (1971). LBJ's memoirs.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson (10 volumes, GPO, 1965–70). All speeches and official statements.
Smith, Simon C., ed. The Wilson–Johnson Correspondence, 1964–69 (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2015), Correspondence with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson; a primary source
Notesedit
^Kent B. Germany, "Historians and the Many Lyndon Johnsons: A Review Essay" Journal of Southern History (2009) 75#4 pp 1001-1028. in JSTOR
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Bibliography of Lyndon B Johnson news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Lyndon B Johnson bibliography includes major books and articles about President Lyndon B Johnson his life and presidential administration Kent B Germany in his review of the historiography noted in 2009 that Johnson has been the subject of 250 Ph D dissertations well over one hundred books and many scholarly articles The New York Times and the Washington Post published 7600 articles on him during his presidency 1 Only a select subgroup are listed here chiefly those reviewed by the major scholarly journals Germany emphasizes the decline of Johnson s reputation The man who was elected to the White House by one of the widest margins in U S history and pushed through as much legislation as any other American politician now seems to be remembered best by the public for succeeding an assassinated hero steering the country into a quagmire in Vietnam cheating on his saintly wife exposing his stitched up belly using profanity picking up dogs by their ears swimming naked with advisers in the White House pool and emptying his bowels while conducting official business Of all those issues Johnson s reputation suffers the most from his management of the Vietnam War something that has overshadowed his civil rights and domestic policy accomplishments and caused Johnson himself to regret his handling of the woman I really loved the Great Society 2 Contents 1 Secondary sources 1 1 Biographies 1 2 Presidential years 1 3 Foreign policy 1 3 1 Vietnam 1 4 Historiography 2 Primary sources 3 NotesSecondary sources editLerner Mitchell B A Companion to Lyndon B Johnson 2012 29 scholarly articles with an emphasis on historiography excerptBiographies edit External videos nbsp Booknotes interview with Robert Caro on Means of Ascent April 29 1990 C SPANCaro Robert A The Years of Lyndon Johnson 4 volumes as of 2012 The Path to Power 1982 Means of Ascent 1990 Master of the Senate 2002 The Passage of Power 2012 The most detailed biography extends to early 1964 External videos nbsp Booknotes interview with Robert Dallek on Lone Star Rising Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1908 1960 September 22 1991 C SPANDallek Robert Lone Star Rising Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1908 1960 1991 Flawed Giant Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1961 1973 1998 also Lyndon B Johnson Portrait of a President 2004 A 400 page abridged version of his 2 volume scholarly biography Fernlund Kevin J Lyndon B Johnson and Modern America Vol 25 of The Oklahoma Western Biographies Norman University of Oklahoma Press 2009 A short study of Johnson s career with an emphasis on Texas and the American West 175 pages Kearns Goodwin Doris Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream 1977 A character study Lerner Mitchell B A Companion to Lyndon B Johnson 2012 Scholarly essays on all aspects of Johnson s career Woods Randall LBJ Architect of American Ambition 2006 A highly detailed scholarly biography 1000 pages Presidential years edit Altschuler Bruce E LBJ and the Polls U Presses of Florida 1990 Bernstein Irving Guns or Butter The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson 1994 Bornet Vaughn Davis The Presidency of Lyndon B Johnson 1983 Burns Richard Dean and Joseph M Siracusa The A to Z of the Kennedy Johnson Era 2009 Cross James C Around the World with LBJ 2008 ISBN 978 0 292 71768 8 Divine Robert A ed The Johnson Years Vol 1 Foreign Policy the Great Society and the White House 1981 essays by scholars excerpt Divine Robert A ed The Johnson Years Vol 2 Vietnam the Environment and Science 1987 essays by scholars Divine Robert A ed The Johnson Years Vol 3 LBJ at Home and Abroad 1994 essays by scholars Ellis Sylvia Freedom s Pragmatist Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights Gainesville FL University Press of Florida 2013 Finley Keith M Delaying the Dream Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights 1938 1965 Baton Rouge LSU Press 2008 Firestone Bernard J and Robert C Vogt eds Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Uses of Power 1988 essays by scholarsExternal videos nbsp Booknotes interview with Jeff Shesol on Mutual Contempt Lyndon Johnson Robert Kennedy and the Feud that Defined a Decade November 30 1997 C SPANGould Lewis L Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment 1988 Hodgson Godfrey JFK and LBJ The Last Two Great Presidents Yale UP 2015 excerptKalman Laura The Long Reach of the Sixties LBJ Nixon and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court Oxford University Press 2017 Kesler Charles Alexander Riley and Christopher Ellis Rethinking the Great Society and the LBJ Presidency Charles Kesler in Reflecting on the 1960s at 50 Routledge 2020 pp 54 66 Lichtenstein Nelson ed Political Profiles The Johnson Years 1976 short biographies of 400 key politicians Longley Kyle LBJ s 1968 Power Politics and the Presidency in America s Year of Upheaval 2018 excerptMann Robert The Walls of Jericho Lyndon Johnson Hubert Humphrey Richard Russell and the Struggle for Civil Rights 1996 Redford Emmette S and Marlan Blissett Organizing the Executive Branch The Johnson Presidency 1981 Shesol Jeff Mutual Contempt Lyndon Johnson Robert Kennedy and the Feud That Shaped a Decade 1997 Unger Irwin The Best of Intentions the triumphs and failures of the Great Society under Kennedy Johnson and Nixon Doubleday 1996 ISBN 0 385 46833 4 White Theodore H The Making of the President 1964 1965 Woods Randall B Prisoners of Hope Lyndon B Johnson the Great Society and the Limits of Liberalism 2016 480pp a scholarly history Zarefsky David President Johnson s War On Poverty Rhetoric and History 2nd ed 2005 excerpt Zeitz Joshua Building the Great Society Inside Lyndon Johnson s White House 2018 excerpt Zelizer Julian E The Fierce Urgency of Now Lyndon Johnson Congress and the Battle for the Great Society 2015 excerptForeign policy edit Andrew Christopher For the President s Eyes Only Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush 1995 pp 307 49 Brands H W The Wages of Globalism Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power 1997 Brands H W The foreign policies of Lyndon Johnson beyond Vietnam 1999 onlineCohen Warren I and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker eds Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World American Foreign Policy 1963 1968 Cambridge University Press 1994 Colman Jonathan The Foreign Policy of Lyndon B Johnson The United States and the World 1963 1969 Edinburgh University Press 2010 231 pp Colman Jonathan The Foreign Policy of Lyndon B Johnson The United States and the World 1963 1969 Edinburgh University Press 2010 231 pp onlineGavin Francis J and Mark Atwood Lawrence eds Beyond the Cold War Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s Oxford University Press 2014 301 pp Kunz Diane B ed The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade American Foreign Relations During the 1960s 1994 Preston Thomas The President and His Inner Circle Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Affairs 2001 Vietnam edit Barrett David Marshall Advice and Dissent An Organizational Analysis of the Evolution of Lyndon Johnson s Vietnam Advisory System 1965 1968 University of Notre Dame 1990 Berman Larry Lyndon Johnson s War The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam 1991 online Casey Francis Michael The Vietnam Policy of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in Response to the Theory of the Protracted Conflict as Applied in the Politics of Indochina A Case Study of Threat Perception and Assessment in the Crisis Management Process of a Pluralistic Society Claremont Graduate University 1976 Cherwitz Richard Arnold The Rhetoric of the Gulf of Tonkin A Study of the Crisis Speaking of President Lyndon B Johnson University of Iowa 1978 Goodnight Lisa Jo The Conservative Voice of a Liberal President An Analysis of Lyndon B Johnson s Vietnam Rhetoric Purdue University 1993 Kaiser David E American tragedy Kennedy Johnson and the origins of the Vietnam War Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2000 ISBN 0 674 00225 3 Logevall Fredrik Bengt Johan Fear to Negotiate Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War 1963 1965 Yale University 1993 Schandler Herbert Y Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam The unmaking of a president Princeton University Press 2014 Turner Kathleen Jane The Effect of Presidential Press Interaction on Lyndon B Johnson s Vietnam War Rhetoric Purdue University 1978 Vandiver Frank E Shadows of Vietnam Lyndon Johnson s Wars 1997 Historiography edit Germany Kent B Historians and the Many Lyndon Johnsons A Review Essay Journal of Southern History 2009 75 4 pp 1001 1028 in JSTOR Lerner Mitchell B A Companion to Lyndon B Johnson 2012 29 scholarly articles with an emphasis on historiography excerptPrimary sources editAvner Yehuda The Prime Ministers An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership 2010 Chapter 14 Deep in the Heart of Texas ISBN 978 1 59264 278 6 Barrett David M Lyndon B Johnson s Vietnam Papers A Documentary Collection 1997 Documents from LBJ Library and other archives Beschloss Michael R Taking Charge The Johnson White House Tapes 1963 1964 1997 Transcribed recordings of LBJ s phone calls Califano Joseph A Jr The Triumph amp Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson 1991 By a former aide Gallup George H ed The Gallup Poll Public Opinion 1935 1971 volume 3 1959 1971 1972 Summary of poll data Johnson Lyndon B The Vantage Point Perspectives on the Presidency 1963 1969 1971 LBJ s memoirs Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Lyndon B Johnson 10 volumes GPO 1965 70 All speeches and official statements Reedy George Lyndon B Johnson A Memoir 1982 ISBN 0 8362 6610 2 A memoir by the press secretary Smith Simon C ed The Wilson Johnson Correspondence 1964 69 Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2015 Correspondence with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson a primary sourceNotes edit Kent B Germany Historians and the Many Lyndon Johnsons A Review Essay Journal of Southern History 2009 75 4 pp 1001 1028 in JSTOR Germany 2009 p 1005 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bibliography of Lyndon B Johnson amp oldid 1195458961, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
