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Book SynopsisDuring the five full years of his presidency (1964–1968), Lyndon Johnson initiated a breathtaking array of domestic policies and programs, including such landmarks as the Civil Rights Act, Head Start, Food Stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, the Immigration Reform Act, the Water Quality Act, the Voting Rights Act, Social Security reform, and Fair Housing. These and other “Great Society” programs reformed the federal government, reshaped intergovernmental relations, extended the federal government’s role into new public policy arenas, and redefined federally protected rights of individuals to engage in the public sphere. Indeed, to a remarkable but largely unnoticed degree,Johnson’s domestic agenda continues to shape and influence current debates on major issues such as immigration, health care, higher education funding, voting rights, and clean water, even though many of his specific policies and programs have been modified or, in some cases, dismantled sinc
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"LBJ's Neglected Legacy . . . offers considerable insight into how the Great Society has endured despite fundamentally changed public expectations of—and confidence in—the federal government." * Texas Monthly *
"…provides a unique approach to evaluating the Johnson administration’s work." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *
"An important compendium of current scholarship on the successes and limitations of the most monumental domestic program in U.S. history."
* Pacific Historical Review *
Table of ContentsList of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Part I. Reconsidering LBJ's Domestic Policies
Chapter 1. Understanding Lyndon Johnson's Neglected Legacies (Norman J. Glickman, Laurence E. Lynn Jr., and Robert H. Wilson)
Chapter 2. Remembering LBJ: One Historian's Thoughts on Johnson's Place in the Pantheon of Presidents (Robert Dallek)
Part II. Defining Citizenship and Immigration
Chapter 3. Ending Jim Crow, Attacking Ghetto Walls (Gary Orfield )
Chapter 4. Expansion and Contraction in LBJ's Voting Rights Legacy (Jorge Chapa)
Chapter 5. An Unexpected Legacy: The Positive Consequences of LBJ's Immigration Policy Reforms (Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and Esther Castillo)
Part III. Education, Health, and Social Welfare Policy
Chapter 6. Head Start: Growing beyond the War on Poverty (Elizabeth Rose)
Chapter 7. Lyndon Johnson and American Education (Gary Orfield)
Chapter 8. The Health Care Legacy of the Great Society (Paul Starr)
Chapter 9. LBJ's Legacy in Contemporary Social Welfare Policy: Have We Come Full Circle? (Cynthia Osborne)
Part IV. Cities, the Environment, and Science Policy
Chapter 10. Lyndon Johnson and the Cities (Norman J. Glickman and Robert H. Wilson)
Chapter 11. The Past and Future of the Johnson Administration's Water Quality Policies (David J. Eaton)
Chapter 12. LBJ, Science, Technology Policy, and Lessons for the Future (Gary Chapman)
Part V. Improving Public Management
Chapter 13. Reform of the Federal Government: Lessons for Change Agents (Laurence E. Lynn Jr.)
Chapter 14. Constructing Effectiveness: The Emergence of the Evaluation Research Industry (Peter Frumkin and Kimberly Francis)
Part VI. Conclusions
Chapter 15. Fifty Years Later: Legacies and Lessons of LBJ's Domestic Policies (Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Norman J. Glickman, and Robert H. Wilson)
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
