Jhonson and Kennedy
Johnson and Kennedy: The Public View Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. by Doris Kearns; Pragmatic Illusions: The Presidential Politics of John F. Kennedy. by Bruce Miroff Review by: Carl N. Degler Reviews in American History, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Mar., 1977), pp. 130-136 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2701781 . Accessed: 21/03/2013 00:41
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JOHNSON AND KENNEDY: THE PUBLIC VIEW
Carl N. Degler
Doris Kearns. Lyndon Johnson theAmerican and Dream.New York: Harper and Row, 1976. xii + 432 pp. Index. $12.50. F. Bruce Miroff.Pragmatic Illusions:The Presidential PoliticsofJohn Kennedy.New York: David McKay, 1976. xvii + 334 pp. Notes and index. $9.95 (cloth), $4.95 (paper). Both of these books are writtenby political scientists,but none of the indicia of the behavioralists clutterstheir pages. There are no tables, graphs, or esoteric jargon. Yet historiansof the traditionalschool will not find here the kind of historicalanalysis in which they have confifundadence. As will become evident in a moment,these books differ in theirfailureto mentally fromone another,but theyare strikingly alike use unpublished materials. In this respect
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JOHNSON AND KENNEDY: THE PUBLIC VIEW
Carl N. Degler
Doris Kearns. Lyndon Johnson theAmerican and Dream.New York: Harper and Row, 1976. xii + 432 pp. Index. $12.50. F. Bruce Miroff.Pragmatic Illusions:The Presidential PoliticsofJohn Kennedy.New York: David McKay, 1976. xvii + 334 pp. Notes and index. $9.95 (cloth), $4.95 (paper). Both of these books are writtenby political scientists,but none of the indicia of the behavioralists clutterstheir pages. There are no tables, graphs, or esoteric jargon. Yet historiansof the traditionalschool will not find here the kind of historicalanalysis in which they have confifundadence. As will become evident in a moment,these books differ in theirfailureto mentally fromone another,but theyare strikingly alike use unpublished materials. In this respect