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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction: Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism | |
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| "The Perfect Roosevelt Man": Young Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1948 | |
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| From the Hill Country to Capitol Hill | |
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| The New Deal | |
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| The Best Congressman a District Ever Had | |
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| Money and Politics, Texas-Sized | |
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| Democratic Leader: Senator Johnson, 1948-1960 | |
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| Shifting Right: Cold War Liberalism | |
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| "E = LBJ": The Senate Leader | |
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| Becoming a National Figure: The Leader and the Issues | |
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| "Let Us Continue": LBJ and the Kennedy Legacy, 1960-1964 | |
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| The Vice President | |
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| Years of Frustration: JFK and the Liberal Agenda | |
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| "Let Us Continue": The Transition | |
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| President in His Own Right | |
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| The Great Society | |
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| Johnsonian Liberalism | |
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| Chief Legislator | |
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| The Not-So-Great Society: Implementing LBJ's Program | |
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| Assessing the Great Society | |
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| Shall We Overcome? LBJ and the Civil Rights Revolution | |
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| "We Shall Overcome": The Voting Rights Act of 1965 | |
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| Fire in the Streets | |
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| A New and Bewildering Stage: Toward Affirmative Action | |
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| LBJ and Civil Rights | |
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| "That Bitch of a War": LBJ and Vietnam | |
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| "A Fat, Juicy Worm": The United States and Vietnam, 1945-1963 137 Americanizing the War, 1963-1965 | |
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| "Lyndon Johnson's War" | |
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| The Credibility Gap and the Home Front | |
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| "No More Vietnams" | |
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| Dumping Johnson: The Decline and Fall of American Liberalism | |
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| Guns, Butter, and Stagflation | |
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| The End of the Johnson Era | |
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| The Documents | |
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| "Let Us Continue": Johnson Assumes the Presidency | |
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| The Kennedy Legacy: LBJ's First Speech as President | |
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| Address before a Joint Session of the Congress, November 27, 1963 | |
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| The Warren Commission: Johnson Applies "The Treatment" to Senator Russell | |
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| Phone Conversation, November 29, 1963, 8:55 p.m. | |
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| Shaping the Debate: LBJ Persuades Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham | |
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| Phone Conversation, December 2, 1963, 11:10 a.m. | |
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| Perspectives on the Great Society | |
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| Launching the Great Society | |
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| Remarks at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964 | |
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| "A Time for Choosing": A Conservative Criticizes Johnsonian Liberalism | |
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| Address on Behalf of Senator Goldwater, October 27, | |
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| A Poverty Warrior Defends the Great Society | |
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| How Great Was the Great Society? 1986 | |
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| A Conservative Thinker Assails the Great Society | |
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| From Wealth and Poverty, 1981 | |
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| Poverty: The Statistical Record | |
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| Persons below Poverty Level and below 125 Percent of Poverty Level: 1959-2002 | |
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| Racial Conflict and the Civil Rights Revolution | |
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| "We Shall Overcome": The Voting Rights Speech | |
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| The American Promise: Special Message to the Congress, March 15, 1965 | |
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| A New Militance in Black America | |
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| "We Must Be in a Position of Power": Address before the CORE National Convention, July 1, 1965 | |
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| From Civil Rights to Affirmative Action | |
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| "To Fulfill These Rights": Commencement Address at Howard University, June 4, 1965 | |
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| War at Home and Abroad: Martin Luther King Jr. Opposes the Vietnam War | |
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| "Beyond Vietnam": Speech at Riverside Church Meeting, April 4, 1967 | |
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| Vietnam | |
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| LBJ Outlines His War Aims | |
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| Peace without Conquest: Address at Johns Hopkins University, April 7, 1965 | |
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| Johnson Agonizes over Vietnam | |
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| Phone Conversation, May 27, 1964, 10:55 a.m. | |
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| The Decision to Escalate: 1965 | |
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| From A Very Human President, July 1965 | |
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| We Can Win in Vietnam: Hawks Criticize LBJ's Strategy | |
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| What Is the President Waiting For? June 28, 1966 | |
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| The Student Left Opposes LBJ | |
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| "The Incredible War": Speech at the Washington Antiwar March, April 17, 1965 | |
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| The Establishment Bows Out: Walter Cronkite Calls the War a Stalemate | |
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| Mired in Stalemate, February 27, 1968 | |
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| The End of Liberalism | |
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| LBJ Insists on Guns and Butter | |
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| Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 12, 1966 | |
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| The Liberal Coalition Breaks Up | |
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| Speech at Madison Square Garden, October 24, 1968 | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| An LBJ Chronology (1908-1975) | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Index | |