The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society

by Julian E. Zelizer

Book Overview

A majestic, big-picture account of the Great Society and the forces that shaped it Between November 1962, when he became president, and November 1966, when his party was routed in the midterm elections, Lyndon Johnson spearheaded the most transformative agenda in American politics since the New Deal. In just three years, he drove the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, the War on Poverty, and Medicare and Medicaid, among a raft of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143128019
• ISBN13: 9780143128014
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"