Andrew L Johns
Biographic Data
| ID | 453488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew L Johns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew L |
| FAMILY NAME | Johns |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNS A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Into the Bright Sunshine
Breaking the Eleventh Commandment
A closer look at Representative Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey’s decision to challenge Richard Nixon for the 1972 Republican presidential nomination due to Nixon’s failure to bring the Vietnam conflict to a conclusion reveals some intriguing aspects of the relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy during the U.S. experience in Vietnam. In breaking the GOP’s “Eleventh Commandment”—the exhortation to not speak ill of fellow Republicans—Mc…
Declining the “Invitation to Struggle”
Congress has abdicated its role at the center of U.S. political life. As a result, the constitutional powers that should be exercised by Congress in both domestic and foreign policy have been progressively appropriated by the executive branch. At times, presidents have seized those powers through exigent circumstances or congressional desuetude and ineffectiveness. Just as frequently, however, Congress has been willing—if not eager—to cede those …
Kyle Burke. Revolutionaries for the Right
Although it languished in historiographical obscurity for decades, the scholarly literature on U.S. conservatism in the post–World War II period has become an active and sophisticated subfield in recent years. Whether engaging questions of the origins of grassroots conservatism, the influence the Right has had on U.S. foreign policy, or the pivotal roles played by notable figures such as Phyllis Schlafly, William F. Buckley Jr., and Ronald Reagan…
The Life Satisfaction of Immigrants in Canada
Book Review| February 01 2020 Review: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel Immerwahr How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. By Daniel Immerwahr. (New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. vii + 516 pp.) Andrew L. Johns Andrew L. Johns Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2020) 89 (1): 161–162. https…
Thank God He’s on Our Side
This essay is part of a roundtable titled “The Scholarship, Influence, and Legacy of David F. Schmitz.” The roundtable includes an introduction from Andrew L. Johns; essays by Vanessa Walker, Steven J. Brady, Kimber M. Quinney, and Kathryn C. Statler; and a response from David F. Schmitz
The Cold War at Home and Abroad
A Companion to Ronald Reagan
Companion to Ronald Reagan
The War of 1812
"The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent, by J.C.A. Stagg." Canadian Journal of History, 49(1), pp. 129–130
Four Decades On
Journal Article Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War Get access Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. x, 334 pp. Cloth, $89.95. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 673–674, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau469 Published: 01 September 2014
The Presidency of George W. Bush
Empire for Liberty
Hard Line
To understand fully the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy since 1945, one must consider a variety of causal factors. Ideology, structural forces, personalities, economics, and geostrategic concerns have all played a role in shaping the American engagement with the rest of the world. While scholars for decades have written extensively on many of these forces, the influence of domestic political considerations has recently garne…
Vietnam’s Second Front
The Vietnam War has been analyzed, dissected, and debated from multiple perspectives for decades, but domestic considerations—such as partisan politics and election-year maneuvering—are often overlooked as determining factors in the evolution and outcome of America's longest war. This book assesses the influence of the Republican Party—its congressional leadership, politicians, grassroots organizations, and the Nixon administration—on the escalat…
Vietnam's second front
"In Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Andrew L. Johns examines the relationship between foreign policy and domestic politics during America's longest war, assessing the influence of the Republican Party - including the congressional leadership, state and local politicians, grassroots organizations, and the Nixon administration - on the escalation, evolution, and resolution of the conflict. This groundbr…
Inventing Vietnam
Triumph Forsaken
D oves A mong H awks
Most historians of the Vietnam conflict have extrapolated the Republican commitment to anticommunism generally and in Southeast Asia specifically into full‐scale support for the war within the party. Yet the evidence demonstrates that a number of influential Republicans—including John Sherman Cooper and George Aiken—vocally opposed the Johnson administration's Vietnam policies and advocated negotiations and de‐escalation as early as 1964. Unfortu…
The Cambodian Campaign
Ten years after the fall of Saigon, Richard M. Nixon called the 1970 invasion of Cambodia “the most successful military operation of the Vietnam War” (No More Vietnams, 1985, p. 149). The joint U.S.–South Vietnamese incursion provoked a maelstrom of domestic controversy, touching off some of the most bitter and tragic antiwar protests of the entire conflict and prompting Congress to finally (albeit unsuccessfully) take action to reign in the war …
The Deadly Bet
Inside the Pentagon Papers
A Voice from the Wilderness
Opening Pandora's Box
On 7 August 1964, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution swept through Con gress, signalling the beginning of a new era in the American commit ment to Southeast Asia. Within a year, Lyndon B. Johnson used the broad and ill-defined grant of authority to significantly escalate the U.S. military presence in Vietnam with the introduction of combat troops. Historians consider the Tonkin Gulf Resolution to be a water shed event in the American Vietnam saga, the tu…
Hard Line
To understand fully the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy since 1945, one must consider a variety of causal factors. Ideology, structural forces, personalities, economics, and geostrategic concerns have all played a role in shaping the American engagement with the rest of the world. While scholars for decades have written extensively on many of these forces, the influence of domestic political considerations has recently garne…
Four Decades On
Journal Article Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War Get access Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. x, 334 pp. Cloth, $89.95. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 673–674, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau469 Published: 01 September 2014
Opening Pandora's Box
On 7 August 1964, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution swept through Con gress, signalling the beginning of a new era in the American commit ment to Southeast Asia. Within a year, Lyndon B. Johnson used the broad and ill-defined grant of authority to significantly escalate the U.S. military presence in Vietnam with the introduction of combat troops. Historians consider the Tonkin Gulf Resolution to be a water shed event in the American Vietnam saga, the tu…
A Voice from the Wilderness
Inside the Pentagon Papers
D oves A mong H awks
Most historians of the Vietnam conflict have extrapolated the Republican commitment to anticommunism generally and in Southeast Asia specifically into full‐scale support for the war within the party. Yet the evidence demonstrates that a number of influential Republicans—including John Sherman Cooper and George Aiken—vocally opposed the Johnson administration's Vietnam policies and advocated negotiations and de‐escalation as early as 1964. Unfortu…
The Cambodian Campaign
Ten years after the fall of Saigon, Richard M. Nixon called the 1970 invasion of Cambodia “the most successful military operation of the Vietnam War” (No More Vietnams, 1985, p. 149). The joint U.S.–South Vietnamese incursion provoked a maelstrom of domestic controversy, touching off some of the most bitter and tragic antiwar protests of the entire conflict and prompting Congress to finally (albeit unsuccessfully) take action to reign in the war …
The Deadly Bet
Triumph Forsaken
Inventing Vietnam
Vietnam’s Second Front
The Vietnam War has been analyzed, dissected, and debated from multiple perspectives for decades, but domestic considerations—such as partisan politics and election-year maneuvering—are often overlooked as determining factors in the evolution and outcome of America's longest war. This book assesses the influence of the Republican Party—its congressional leadership, politicians, grassroots organizations, and the Nixon administration—on the escalat…
Vietnam's second front
"In Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Andrew L. Johns examines the relationship between foreign policy and domestic politics during America's longest war, assessing the influence of the Republican Party - including the congressional leadership, state and local politicians, grassroots organizations, and the Nixon administration - on the escalation, evolution, and resolution of the conflict. This groundbr…
Empire for Liberty
Hard Line
To understand fully the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy since 1945, one must consider a variety of causal factors. Ideology, structural forces, personalities, economics, and geostrategic concerns have all played a role in shaping the American engagement with the rest of the world. While scholars for decades have written extensively on many of these forces, the influence of domestic political considerations has recently garne…
The Presidency of George W. Bush
The War of 1812
"The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent, by J.C.A. Stagg." Canadian Journal of History, 49(1), pp. 129–130
Four Decades On
Journal Article Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War Get access Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. x, 334 pp. Cloth, $89.95. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 673–674, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau469 Published: 01 September 2014
A Companion to Ronald Reagan
Companion to Ronald Reagan
The Cold War at Home and Abroad
Thank God He’s on Our Side
This essay is part of a roundtable titled “The Scholarship, Influence, and Legacy of David F. Schmitz.” The roundtable includes an introduction from Andrew L. Johns; essays by Vanessa Walker, Steven J. Brady, Kimber M. Quinney, and Kathryn C. Statler; and a response from David F. Schmitz
Declining the “Invitation to Struggle”
Congress has abdicated its role at the center of U.S. political life. As a result, the constitutional powers that should be exercised by Congress in both domestic and foreign policy have been progressively appropriated by the executive branch. At times, presidents have seized those powers through exigent circumstances or congressional desuetude and ineffectiveness. Just as frequently, however, Congress has been willing—if not eager—to cede those …
Kyle Burke. Revolutionaries for the Right
Although it languished in historiographical obscurity for decades, the scholarly literature on U.S. conservatism in the post–World War II period has become an active and sophisticated subfield in recent years. Whether engaging questions of the origins of grassroots conservatism, the influence the Right has had on U.S. foreign policy, or the pivotal roles played by notable figures such as Phyllis Schlafly, William F. Buckley Jr., and Ronald Reagan…
The Life Satisfaction of Immigrants in Canada
Book Review| February 01 2020 Review: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel Immerwahr How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. By Daniel Immerwahr. (New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. vii + 516 pp.) Andrew L. Johns Andrew L. Johns Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2020) 89 (1): 161–162. https…
Breaking the Eleventh Commandment
A closer look at Representative Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey’s decision to challenge Richard Nixon for the 1972 Republican presidential nomination due to Nixon’s failure to bring the Vietnam conflict to a conclusion reveals some intriguing aspects of the relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy during the U.S. experience in Vietnam. In breaking the GOP’s “Eleventh Commandment”—the exhortation to not speak ill of fellow Republicans—Mc…
Into the Bright Sunshine
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