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The deadly bet : LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election  Cover Image Book Book

The deadly bet : LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election / Walter LaFeber.

LaFeber, Walter. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0742543919 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0742543927 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: x, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
General William Westmoreland : the Tet offensive -- Senator Eugene McCarthy : the college student crusade -- Lyndon Johnson : "people grow tired of confusion" -- Martin Luther King : the dream -- Robert Kennedy : the "national soul" -- Richard Nixon : the candidate from Squaresville? -- Hubert Horatio Humphrey : the isolation of the politics of joy -- George Wallace : the populism of the Vietnam war era -- Nguyen Van Thieu : a merry-go-round in a chamber of horrors.
Subject: Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
Presidents > United States > Election > 1968.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 1963-1969.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Covington Branch 973.924 L162d 2005 (Text) 33126012756783 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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