The Politics of Race and War: The Civil Rights and Vietnam Tapes of Kennedy and Johnson

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David Coleman is an assistant professor at the Miller Center and coordinator of the Presidential Recordings Program's project on John F. Kennedy. He is completing a book on the history of nuclear deterrence and is an editor of the forthcoming Volumes 4 and 5 in the Program's Kennedy series and, is co-editor of a future volume on Kennedy's and Johnson's Vietnam policies, titled Prelude to Escalation: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Vietnam Dilemma (forthcoming).

Kent Germany is an assistant professor at the Miller Center and coordinator of the Presidential Recordings Program's project on Lyndon B. Johnson. His research involves Southern politics, race relations, and social policy. He is completing a book titled Seeking the Great Society: A Southern City After Jim Crow, 1963-1973. He is also an editor of Volumes 3 and 4 of the Center's Johnson series and is co-editor of a future volume titled Crisis of Victory: Race, Lyndon Johnson, and the White House Recordings, 1964-1966.