Larry Berman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3627261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Berman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Berman |
| SIGNATURE | BERMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Approaching Democracy
Approaching Democracy
Democracy cannot be taken for granted, whether at home or internationally, and eternal vigilance (along with civic intelligence) is required to protect it. Approaching Democracy provides students with a framework to analyze the structure, process, and action of US government, institutions, and social movements. It also invites comparison with other countries. This globalizing perspective gives students an understanding of issues of governance and…
Why Theunitedstatesfought Invietnam
Scholarship on the Vietnam war has advanced understanding of why the United States fought in Vietnam. An examination of this work leads us to consider several related topics, such as why North Vietnam won the war, why the United States and its ally South Vietnam lost the war, and whether there were missed opportunities whereby the U.S. military intervention could have been avoided. The disciplines of history and political science have illuminated…
No Peace, No Honor
Vietnam
Haunting questions remain about our involvement in Vietnam. Perhaps the most persistent of these is whether President Kennedy would have ended American involvement in Vietnam if he had lived. For many Americans, Oliver Stone's film JFK left no doubt that before his assassination Kennedy had determined to quit Vietnam. Yet the historical record offers a more complex answer. In this fresh look at the archival evidence, noted scholars take up the ch…
Thinking about the Vietnam War
Coming to Grips with Lyndon Johnson's War
Foreign Military Intervention
Foreign Military Intervention brings together prominent scholars in an ambitious and innovative comparative study. The six case studies-the United States in Vietnam, the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, Syria in Lebanon, Israel in Lebanon, South Africa and Cuba in Angola, and India in Sri Lanka-constitute a diverse set, involving superpowers and regional powers, democracies and nondemocracies, neighboring states and distant states, and incumbent regi…
Policy Making in the White House
Vietnam
Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency
Now that the front page belongs to George Bush, what are analysts saying about Ronald Reagan? And how will the legacy shape policy and politics into the next century? Looking Back on the Presidency offers the latest thinking of nineteen leading president-watchers. Edited by Larry Berman, the volume appraises the administration's policies and initiatives and speculates about what the years will mean to the future. Robert Pastor describes Reagan's …
The Politics of the U.S. Cabinet
A More Effective Presidency
Lyndon Johnson's Dual War
Journal Article Lyndon Johnson's Dual War: Vietnam and the Press. By Kathleen J. Turner. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. ix + 358 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Larry Berman Larry Berman University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 743–744, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904398 Published…
The War Everyone Lost--And Won
Journal Article The War Everyone Lost—And Won: America's Intervention in Viet Nam's Twin Struggles. By Timothy J. Lomperis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. xi + 192 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50.) Get access Larry Herman Larry Herman University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 3, December 1984, Pages 6…
Planning a Tragedy. The Americanization of the War in Vietnam
Vietnam Verdict
Journal Article Vietnam Verdict: A Citizen's History. By Joseph A. Amter. (New York: Continuum, 1982. xxiii + 400 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Larry Berman Larry Berman University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 734–735, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903594 Published:…
Planning a Tragedy
Journal Article Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam. By Larry Berman. (New York: Norton, 1982. xvi + 203 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95.) Get access Frank Burdick Frank Burdick State University of New York, Cortland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 1982, Page 771, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903245 Publi…
Planning a Tragedy
Exploring the Johnson Years
The Editor's Corner
The Fellow may begin the twelve-months' residence on either July 1 or September 1, 1982
Rhetoric and Reality
Promise and Performance
The Office of Management and Budget and the Presidency, 1921-1979
Journal Article The Office of Management and Budget and the Presidency, 1921–1979. By Larry Berman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xiii + 180 pp. Charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $4.95.) Get access Donald R. McCoy Donald R. McCoy University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1, June 1980, Page 202, …
OMB and the Hazards of Presidential Staff Work
This article assesses the dilemmas (especially perceptions of politicization) confronting the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as an institutional staff unit that serves both the immediate political needs of an incumbent president and the long-range needs of the presidency. Observers of American politics have long recognized the central role that the OMB plays through its fiscal and legislative clearance, program coordination and development…
Foreign Military Intervention
Foreign Military Intervention brings together prominent scholars in an ambitious and innovative comparative study. The six case studies-the United States in Vietnam, the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, Syria in Lebanon, Israel in Lebanon, South Africa and Cuba in Angola, and India in Sri Lanka-constitute a diverse set, involving superpowers and regional powers, democracies and nondemocracies, neighboring states and distant states, and incumbent regi…
No Peace, No Honor
Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency
Now that the front page belongs to George Bush, what are analysts saying about Ronald Reagan? And how will the legacy shape policy and politics into the next century? Looking Back on the Presidency offers the latest thinking of nineteen leading president-watchers. Edited by Larry Berman, the volume appraises the administration's policies and initiatives and speculates about what the years will mean to the future. Robert Pastor describes Reagan's …
The Office of Management and Budget and the Presidency, 1921-1979
Journal Article The Office of Management and Budget and the Presidency, 1921–1979. By Larry Berman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xiii + 180 pp. Charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $4.95.) Get access Donald R. McCoy Donald R. McCoy University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1, June 1980, Page 202, …
Planning a Tragedy
Why Theunitedstatesfought Invietnam
Scholarship on the Vietnam war has advanced understanding of why the United States fought in Vietnam. An examination of this work leads us to consider several related topics, such as why North Vietnam won the war, why the United States and its ally South Vietnam lost the war, and whether there were missed opportunities whereby the U.S. military intervention could have been avoided. The disciplines of history and political science have illuminated…
Promise and Performance
The Office of Management and Budget that Almost Wasn't
Journal Article The Office of Management and Budget that Almost Wasn’t Get access Larry Berman Larry Berman LARRY BERMAN is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Davis. He is completing a study entitled "The Evolution of a Presidential Staff Agency: Variations in How the Bureau of the Budget-Office of Management and Budget Has Responded to Presidential Needs." Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
The Office of Management and Budget that Almost Wasn't
Journal Article The Office of Management and Budget that Almost Wasn’t Get access Larry Berman Larry Berman LARRY BERMAN is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Davis. He is completing a study entitled "The Evolution of a Presidential Staff Agency: Variations in How the Bureau of the Budget-Office of Management and Budget Has Responded to Presidential Needs." Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
OMB and the Hazards of Presidential Staff Work
This article assesses the dilemmas (especially perceptions of politicization) confronting the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as an institutional staff unit that serves both the immediate political needs of an incumbent president and the long-range needs of the presidency. Observers of American politics have long recognized the central role that the OMB plays through its fiscal and legislative clearance, program coordination and development…
Rhetoric and Reality
Promise and Performance
The Office of Management and Budget and the Presidency, 1921-1979
Journal Article The Office of Management and Budget and the Presidency, 1921–1979. By Larry Berman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xiii + 180 pp. Charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $4.95.) Get access Donald R. McCoy Donald R. McCoy University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1, June 1980, Page 202, …
Exploring the Johnson Years
The Editor's Corner
The Fellow may begin the twelve-months' residence on either July 1 or September 1, 1982
Planning a Tragedy
Journal Article Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam. By Larry Berman. (New York: Norton, 1982. xvi + 203 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95.) Get access Frank Burdick Frank Burdick State University of New York, Cortland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 1982, Page 771, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903245 Publi…
Planning a Tragedy
Vietnam Verdict
Journal Article Vietnam Verdict: A Citizen's History. By Joseph A. Amter. (New York: Continuum, 1982. xxiii + 400 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Larry Berman Larry Berman University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 734–735, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903594 Published:…
The War Everyone Lost--And Won
Journal Article The War Everyone Lost—And Won: America's Intervention in Viet Nam's Twin Struggles. By Timothy J. Lomperis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. xi + 192 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50.) Get access Larry Herman Larry Herman University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 3, December 1984, Pages 6…
Planning a Tragedy. The Americanization of the War in Vietnam
Lyndon Johnson's Dual War
Journal Article Lyndon Johnson's Dual War: Vietnam and the Press. By Kathleen J. Turner. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. ix + 358 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Larry Berman Larry Berman University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 743–744, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904398 Published…
A More Effective Presidency
The Politics of the U.S. Cabinet
Vietnam
Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency
Now that the front page belongs to George Bush, what are analysts saying about Ronald Reagan? And how will the legacy shape policy and politics into the next century? Looking Back on the Presidency offers the latest thinking of nineteen leading president-watchers. Edited by Larry Berman, the volume appraises the administration's policies and initiatives and speculates about what the years will mean to the future. Robert Pastor describes Reagan's …
Policy Making in the White House
Foreign Military Intervention
Foreign Military Intervention brings together prominent scholars in an ambitious and innovative comparative study. The six case studies-the United States in Vietnam, the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, Syria in Lebanon, Israel in Lebanon, South Africa and Cuba in Angola, and India in Sri Lanka-constitute a diverse set, involving superpowers and regional powers, democracies and nondemocracies, neighboring states and distant states, and incumbent regi…
Coming to Grips with Lyndon Johnson's War
Thinking about the Vietnam War
Vietnam
Haunting questions remain about our involvement in Vietnam. Perhaps the most persistent of these is whether President Kennedy would have ended American involvement in Vietnam if he had lived. For many Americans, Oliver Stone's film JFK left no doubt that before his assassination Kennedy had determined to quit Vietnam. Yet the historical record offers a more complex answer. In this fresh look at the archival evidence, noted scholars take up the ch…
No Peace, No Honor
Why Theunitedstatesfought Invietnam
Scholarship on the Vietnam war has advanced understanding of why the United States fought in Vietnam. An examination of this work leads us to consider several related topics, such as why North Vietnam won the war, why the United States and its ally South Vietnam lost the war, and whether there were missed opportunities whereby the U.S. military intervention could have been avoided. The disciplines of history and political science have illuminated…
Approaching Democracy
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