Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World

This is the most comprehensive perceptive and nuanced review to date of the foreign policy of the Lyndon Johnson era. It demonstrates U.S. concern not just with the Soviet Union Europe and nuclear weapons issues but the overwhelming preoccupation with Vietnam that shaped policy throughout the world. Using the most recently declassified documents it explains in thoroughly readable prose the intricacies of the foreign policy dilemmas that forced Johnson''s Great Society domestic agenda into retreat.