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(0)Mitchell B Lerner
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"The Pueblo was an aging cargo ship poorly refurbished as a signals intelligence collector for the top secret Operation Clickbeetle. It was sent off with a first-time captain, an inexperienced crew, and no backup, and was captured well before the completion of its first mission. Ignored for a quarter of a century, the Pueblo Incident has been the subject of much polemic but no scholarly scrutiny. Mitchell Lerner now examines for the first time the...
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"Drawing upon a wealth of new sources, including recently released phone conversations, these authors shine a bright and probing light on LBJ's beleaguered White House tenure. Collectively, they reinforce the image of Johnson as a highly complex president whose very real achievements have been overshadowed by character flaws and events well beyond his control."--BOOK JACKET.
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"This volume of essays is a superb contribution to the growing body of scholarship on LBJ and his presidency. Lerner, himself one of the country's leading experts on Johnson, has assembled a first-rate cast of contributors."--Randall B. Woods, author, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition.
"For all serious scholars and students of Lyndon Johnson - and given the long-term consequences of Vietnam, the Great Society, and the 1960s broadly, aren't we all?...