Masterful. (Correspondence).(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, June, 2002 by Lemisch, Jesse
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IN HIS REVIEW OF ROBERT Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson [May 20], Robert Mann tells us that LBJ's work on the weak Civil Rights Act of 1957 "made possible the landmark bills of the 1960s." This is preposterous: It was the civil rights movement that brought the Democratic Party temporarily out of its customary slumber, to which it has returned.
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In so many ways, we are going back to the historiography of the 1950s in which Great Men (Johnson, John Adams, Teddy Roosevelt) are seen as making history, when in ...
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