{"product_id":"beyond-the-cold-war-lyndon-johnson-and-the-new-global-challenges-of-the-1960s-paperback","title":"Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancis J. Gavin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn writing about international affairs in the 1960s, historians have naturally focused on the Cold War. The decade featured perilous confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union over Berlin and Cuba, the massive buildup of nuclear stockpiles, the escalation of war in Vietnam, and bitter East-West rivalry throughout the developing world. As the world historical force of globalization has quickened and deepened, however, historians have begun to see that many of the global challenges that we face today \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond the Cold War\u003c\/em\u003e examines how the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson responded to this changing international landscape. To what extent did U.S. leaders understand these changes? How did they prioritize these issues alongside the geostrategic concerns that dominated their daily agendas and the headlines of the day? How successfully did Americans grapple with these long-range problems, with what implications for the future? What lessons lie in the efforts of Johnson and his aides to cope with a new and inchoate agenda of problems? By reconsidering the 1960s, this work suggests a new research agenda predicated on the idea that the Cold War was not the only - or perhaps even the most important - feature of international life in the postwar period.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancis J. Gavin\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eGold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Atwood Lawrence\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of \u003cem\u003eAssuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Vietnam War: A Concise International History\u003c\/em\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 16, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47520042877149,"sku":"9780199790708","price":86.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/BvyUpTQaZX9780199790708.webp?v=1772235531","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/beyond-the-cold-war-lyndon-johnson-and-the-new-global-challenges-of-the-1960s-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}