American Global Power from Empire to Superpower

Notes

1. Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (New York: Free Press, 2006), 423.
2. Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (New York: Free Press, 2006), 435.
3. Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (New York: Free Press, 2006), 436.
4. “Modern History Sourcebook: President Lyndon B. Johnson: The War on Poverty, March 1964,” Internet history sourcebooks, accessed July 25, 2022, https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1964johnson-warpoverty.asp.
5. Randall B. Woods. “The Politics of Idealism: Lyndon Johnson, Civil Rights, and Vietnam,” Diplomatic History 31, no.1 (April 1964): 3. Accessed April 18, 2022. https://academic.oup.com/article/31/1/1/356070.
6. Woods, Politics of Idealism, 4.
7. Woods, Politics of Idealism, 5.
8. “Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at the University of Michigan (“Great Society” Speech), May 22, 1964.” Bill of Rights Institute. Accessed July 25, 2022. https://billofrightsinstitute.org/activities/lyndon-b-johnson-commencement-address-at-the-university-of-michigan-great-society-speech-may-22-1964
9. Bill of Rights Institute, Michigan commencement address.
10. Jeffrey W. Helsing, Johnson’s War/Johnson’s Great Society: The Guns and Butter Trap (Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2000), 8
11. Helsing, 8.
12. “Kennan and Containment, 1947,” U.S. Department of State (U.S. Department of State), accessed July 25, 2022, https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/kennan.
13. Jeffrey W. Helsing, Johnson’s War/Johnson’s Great Society: The Guns and Butter Trap (Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2000), 4
14. Robert Dallek, “Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: The Making of. Tragedy,” Diplomatic History 20, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 148. Accessed April 29, 2022.
15. Dallek, 148.
16. Woods, Politics of Idealism, 7.
17. Dallek, Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam, 150.
18. McGeorge Bundy, The Case for Withdrawal, ed. Jeffrey Engel, et.al. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014), 264.
19. Dallek, Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam, 150.
20. Hubert Humphrey, The Case for Withdrawal, ed. Jeffrey Engel, et.al. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014), 265,266.
21. Woods, Politics of Idealism, 8.
22. Woods, 11.
23. Lyndon B. Johnson, Why America Fights, ed. Jeffrey Engel, et.al. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014), 269
24. Johnson, Why America Fights, 269.
25. Martin L. King, Jr., The War and Damage Done, ed. Jeffrey Engel, et.al. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014), 272.
26. King, The War and Damage Done, 273
27. Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), 8.
28. Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (New York: Picador, 2019) 14.
29. Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire, 11.