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Book Review

Canada and the United States

H. W. Brands, editor. The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson: Beyond Vietnam. (Foreign Relations and the Presidency, number 1.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 1999. Pp. 194. $29.95.

Lyndon B. Johnson's historical legacy is forever linked to the Vietnam War. Early in his administration, Johnson identified Vietnam as the nation's greatest foreign policy concern, and his subsequent decision to fight a large-scale American war on behalf of South Vietnam would prove to be his political undoing; he departed the Oval Office in 1969 a man broken by the war and the deep social divisions it created. He died a scant four years later, just as the American phase of this long and bloody war was drawing to a close. 1

But there was more to Johnson's foreign policy than Vietnam. In recent years, several worthy studies have appeared that have gone beyond Indochina and examined the larger spectrum of American foreign policy in the years 1963–1968; in particular, there are edited volumes by the team of Warren I. Cohen and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and by Diane B. Kunz (the latter of which also covers the Kennedy years) and a single-author study by H. W. Brands. Now Brands has returned to the subject, editing a very useful collection of essays by established specialists. Beginning with a chapter by Robert Dallek on Johnson as a world leader, the book proceeds with chapters by John Prados on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), Thomas A. Schwartz on Johnson and Western Europe, and William O. Walker III on relations with Cuba. In the second half of the book, we find Peter Felten on the intervention in the Dominican Republic, Douglas Little on the Six-Day War, and, finally, Robert J. McMahon on the administration's relations with three Asian allies. . . .

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