This is the most comprehensive, perceptive, and nuanced review to date of the foreign policy of the Lyndon Johnson era. Using the most recently declassified documents, this volume explains in thoroughly readable prose the intricacies of the foreign policy dilemmas that forced Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda into retreat.

The essays in this volume transform our understanding of the foreign policy of the Johnson administration. As the first comprehensive examination of foreign policymaking in the Johnson years, this study provides a wealth of detail and insight that extends and deepens the analysis of this critical period.