Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-581) and index.

"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? Lerner's compilation is a must-read to truly understand the man and his era."--Jeffrey A. Engel, Kruse '52 Founders Professor, Texas A & M University.

"The one-stop source for the latest historiography on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Lerner has assembled a collection of gems by the leading historians of U.S. domestic and foreign policy during the Johnson era."--Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut.

From Vietnam to the Great Society to the Civil Rights reforms, the Johnson presidency saw a barrage of controversial but important measures that generate almost as much dispute today as they did when they were enacted. This collection offers an overview of Lyndon B. Johnson's life, presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the central arguments and scholarly debates from his term in office. The essays examine the traditional understandings of the president's interaction with the major issues facing America, and the world, in the mid-1960s, while incorporating the dramatic new interpretations that have resulted from the recent release of around 8,000 phone conversations and meetings that Johnson secretly recorded as President. A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson brings together the emerging historiographical writing on the 36th President of the United States and is the definitive guide to the evolution and current status of Johnson scholarship. -- Book jacket.

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