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Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of Lyndon.Johnson. H. V11. Brands, ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. 194 pp. $29.95 cloth.
"The jury is still out," writes Robert Dallek in the first of seven essays on Lyndon Johnson's foreign policies compiled in this volume, "on Johnson as a foreign policy leader" (p. 8). It is an accurate lament. For decades, studies of international relations under Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) have focused almost entirely on the Vietnam War. Only recently, with the steady declassification of materials from the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, have scholars started to move beyond this single event and toward the development of a more complete picture of the diplomacy of the thirty-sixth president. In Beyond Vietnam, Professor H. W Brands, himself the author of one of the most prominent new books on this topic, presents a collection of essays that attempts to shed some light on a few of the many overlooked areas of the Johnson presidency.
The seven authors collected here agree on one...