Robert David Johnson

Biographic Data

ID3744293
NAMERobert David Johnson
GIVEN NAMESRobert David
FAMILY NAMEJohnson
SIGNATUREJOHNSON R D
AFFILIATIONSBrooklyn College & CUNY Graduate Center
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War

    Open AccessAntoine Coppolani, Gregory A Daddis et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of the…2024

    The third and final volume of The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War examines key domestic, regional, and international developments in the period before and after the war's end, including its legal, environmental, and memorial legacies. The latter stages of the Vietnam War witnessed its apex as a Cold War crucible. The Sino-Soviet dispute, Sino-American rapprochement, Soviet-American détente, and global counter-culturalism served in various wa…

  • Longley, Kyle. LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval

    Rob Johnson, Robert David JohnsonARTICLECongress & the Presidency2019References: 2

    Longley, Kyle. LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval." Congress & the Presidency, 46(3), pp. 513–514

  • Building an Icon

    Open AccessRob Johnson, Robert David JohnsonARTICLEDiplomatic History2018

    In 2017, a C-SPAN survey of presidential historians ranked John Kennedy as the nation’s eighth best president. Among post-World War II presidents, he trailed Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, and only narrowly exceeded the score of Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson.1 By contrast, in two decades of Gallup polling (1990 through 2010), Kennedy’s approval rating never fell below seventy-six percent; in 2010, eighty-five percent of Americans approved…

  • Congress and the Politics of National Security

    Open AccessRobert David Johnson, Mark J Oleszek et al.BOOKCongress and the Politics of…2011

    In an increasingly complex and unpredictable world, a growing number of observers and practitioners have called for a re-examination of our national security system. Central to any such reform effort is an evaluation of Congress. Is Congress adequately organized to deal with national security issues in an integrated and coordinated manner? How have developments in Congress over the past few decades, such as heightened partisanship, message politi…

  • The Republicans and Pre-World War II Foreign Policy: The Republicans and Pre-World War II Foreign Policy

    Rob Johnson, Robert David JohnsonARTICLEDiplomatic History2011

    We live in a bitterly partisan era. In Washington, party-line voting in both houses of Congress has reached levels unseen since the late nineteenth century. The unprecedented degree of GOP filibustering has created a de facto constitutional amendment by procedure, with sixty senators required to approve even the most mundane matters. Outside of Washington, public opinion polls show yawning gaps between Democrats and Republicans not only on politi…

  • Entries

    Open AccessHarry Liebersohn, Martin Klimke et al.CHAPTERPalgrave Dictionary of…2009

  • The Kennedy Myth

    Rob Johnson, Robert David JohnsonARTICLEDiplomatic History2004

    In early 1962, President John Kennedy announced, “We have not sent combat troops in the generally understood sense of the word” to Vietnam (p. 142). In this superbly researched chronicle of the administration's approach to the Southeast Asian conflict, Howard Jones contends that Kennedy did not escalate U.S. military involvement, at least in the generally understood sense of the word, but instead saw his approach as a precondition for a planned U…

  • The Unintended Consequences of Congressional Reform: The Clark and Tunney Amendments and U.S. Policy toward Angola

    Rob Johnson, Robert David JohnsonARTICLEDiplomatic History2003

  • Congress and the Cold War

    Robert David JohnsonARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2001

    Congress has received insufficient attention from scholars of Cold War foreign policy for a number of reasons, including historiographical patterns and the scattered nature of congressional sources. This gap in the literature has skewed our understanding of the Cold War because it has failed to take into account the numerous ways in which the legislature affected U.S. foreign policy after World War II. This article looks at Cold War congressional…

  • Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition

    David F Schmitz, David Schmitz et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition. By Robert David Johnson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 375 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-26060-0.) Get access David F. Schmitz David F. Schmitz Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 751–752, https://doi.org/10.2307/25689…

  • Constitutionalism Abroad and At Home: The United States Senate and the Alliance for Progress, 1961–1967

    Rob Johnson, Robert David JohnsonARTICLEThe International History Review1999

    assistant secretary of state for interAmerican affairs in John F. Kennedy's administration, Edwin Martin, testified on 3 October 1963 before a closed session of the senate's Foreign Relations Committee to defend the administration's handling of a military coup in the Dominican Republic. While the administration privately conceded the coup to be a grave setback, committee Republicans generally supported the restrained welcome given to the military…

  • Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition

    Philip Zelikow, Rob Johnson et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1999

    The progressive impulse the anti-imperialist impulse the dilemmas of progressivism the dilemmas of anti-imperialism the Alaskan agenda the Washington agenda the dilemmas of dissent the limits of dissent the frustrations of dissent

  • The Government Operations Committee and Foreign Policy During the Cold War

    Open AccessRob Johnson, Robert David JohnsonARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1998Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Government Operations Committee and Foreign Policy During the Cold War Get access Robert David Johnson Robert David Johnson ROBERT DAVID JOHNSON is assistant professor of history at Williams College. His most recent book is Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 4, Winter 1998, Pages 645–671, …

  • Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957

    Rob Johnson, Robert David JohnsonREVIEWJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957. By Penny M. Von Eschen. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xiv, 259 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3197-2. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8014-8292-5) Get access Robert David Johnson Robert David Johnson Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue…

  • Anti-Imperialism and the Good Neighbour Policy: Ernest Gruening and Puerto Rican Affairs, 1934-1939

    Open AccessRob Johnson, Robert David JohnsonARTICLEJournal of Latin American Studies1997Cited by: 1

    During his five years as chief US policy-maker towards Puerto Rico, Ernest Gruening strove to create a model - based on the anti-imperialist principles he had outlined in the 1920s - for a reformist policy which the United States could pursue towards the rest of Latin America. The initial support of Franklin Roosevelt allowed Gruening to position his Puerto Rican programme as one of the three ideological alternatives present in the early stages o…

  • The Origins of Dissent: Senate Liberals and Vietnam, 1959-1964

    Rob Johnson, Robert David JohnsonARTICLEPacific Historical Review1996References: 9

    Research Article| May 01 1996 The Origins of Dissent: Senate Liberals and Vietnam, 1959-1964 Robert David Johnson Robert David Johnson Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1996) 65 (2): 249–275. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639985 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permission…

  • The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations

    Stephen J Randall, Rob Johnson et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1996

  • The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations

    John Whiteclay Chambers, John Whiteclay Chambers II et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations. By Robert David Johnson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. viii, 448 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-65917-1.) Get access John Whiteclay Chambers, II John Whiteclay Chambers, II Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1256–1257, https://doi.org/…

  • The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations

    David C Hendrickson, Rob Johnson et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1995Cited by: 5

    Introduction 1. Patterns of Dissent 2. The Emergence of the Peace Progressives 3. Alternative to Wilsonianisin 4. Alternative to Imperialism 5. Alternative to Corporatism 6. Anti-Imperialism and the Peace Movement 7. The Collapse of Wilsonianism 8. The Decline of Anti-Imperialism Epilogue Appendix: Congressional Votes on Foreign Relations, 1914-1932 Notes Select Bibliography Index

  • California Progressivism Revisited

    Rob Johnson, Robert David Johnson et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1995

    Journal Article California Progressivism Revisited Get access California Progressivism Revisited. Edited by Deverell William Sitton Tom. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xii + 278 pp. Tables, notes, index. $40.00, cloth; $15.00, paper.) Robert David Johnson Robert David Johnson Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 3, Autumn …

  • Article XI in the Debate on the United States' Rejection of the League of Nations

    Rob Johnson, Robert David JohnsonARTICLEThe International History Review1993

    (1993). Article XI in the Debate on the United States' Rejection of the League of Nations. The International History Review: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 502-524