(lyndon baines)

Describes the social reform work done by President Johnson and the significant legislative accomplishments through which he hoped to help blacks and the poor of America.

Explores the photographs of the official White House photographer, Cecil Stoughton, and describes how his pictures of the smooth succession of power after Kennedy's assassination reassured many shocked Americans.

Examines the life and political career of Lyndon B. Johnson, and explains how his foreign policy failures overrode the successes of his domestic programs.

An account of America's deepening involvement in Vietnam between November 1964 and July 1965.

A political tour of the 1960s with Goodwin's memoirs of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and Eugene McCarthy.

Photos fill this chronicle of Lyndon Baines Johnson's life and achievements as U.S. president, also providing a time line, a glossary, general information on the presidency, a table of facts on all the presidents up to George W. Bush, and a list of related books and Web sites.

Short history of how America came to be involved in Vietnam, using newly available sources from American and Vietnamese archives to study how and why the war started and escalated.