Mitchell Lerner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5447352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mitchell Lerner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mitchell |
| FAMILY NAME | Lerner |
| SIGNATURE | LERNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Loving America but Loving Korea More
The Death of Liberal Internationalism
The election of Donald J. Trump unsettled many areas of U.S . foreign policy, but few more than the nation’s relationship with Korea. This article argues that the Trump administration’s vision for the world represents a stark break from the tradition of liberal internationalism and instead seeks to take the United States down a path that reflects the modern business practices of giant American corporations. A suitable label for this vision, as th…
Masuda Hajimu. Cold War Crucible
Kim Seong-chil was a thirty-seven-year-old history professor at Seoul University when North Korean forces crossed the thirty-eighth parallel in June 1950. However, the North Korean soldiers who soon occupied his town did not frighten him; instead, Kim wrote in his diary, “They don’t look like the enemy. They look more like brothers, who left home and lived somewhere far away, just making a visit” (58). Kim was killed in 1951 but his voice, and th…
Beyond the Cold War
On 10 June 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered the commencement address at the College of the Holy Cross. He began his speech by talking about the Cold War, committing his administration to the pursuit of peace and coexistence. Quickly, however, Johnson went a different direction, warning the students about a host of emerging international problems that had been largely ignored because of the focus on superpower relations. Even if the Cold…
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot
Robert Harold Duke. LBJ and Grassroots Federalism
Journal Article Robert Harold Duke. LBJ and Grassroots Federalism: Congressman Bob Poage, Race, and Change in Texas. Get access Robert Harold Duke. LBJ and Grassroots Federalism: Congressman Bob Poage, Race, and Change in Texas. (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, no. 122.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 248. $45.00. Mitchell Lerner Mitchell Lerner The Ohio State University…
Of Derma and Diplomacy
I love stuffed derma. Readers who, like me, grew up with an exceedingly Jewish grandmother in Brooklyn know exactly what that means. For those unfamiliar with derma (goyim, my grandmother would say, each syllable dripping with a combination of sadness and disdain similar to the way Michele Bachmann says “Obamacare” or I say “New York Yankees”), this traditional delicacy can be hard to picture, especially since my grandmother's version was so tend…
The foreign policy of Lyndon B. Johnson
Jonathan Colman, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, viii+231 pp Commenting on the ‘difficulty’ of evaluating modern presidents, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in 1997 singled out Lyndon Johnson
A Big Tree of Peace and Justice”
Journal Article “A Big Tree of Peace and Justice”: The Vice Presidential Travels of Lyndon Johnson Get access Mitchell Lerner Mitchell Lerner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 357–393, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00852.x Published: 05 March 2010
To be Shot at by the Whites and Dodged by the Negroes”
Although Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential record clearly established him as a committed champion of African American civil rights, the origins of this commitment remain less clear. This article examines LBJ's record as head of the Texas National Youth Administration (NYA) in the mid‐1930s to argue that he demonstrated a genuine commitment to racial equality much earlier than many accounts suggest. Furthermore, in an attempt to offer a fuller unde…
Trying to Find the Guy Who Invited Them”
Lyndon Johnson was jubilant on August 20, 1968. The next morning, the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union planned to announce the opening of arms limitation talks, which would include a likely presidential journey to Moscow in October. For LBJ, it was to be one of the highest points of his presidency. Over a celebratory drink that afternoon, he told his advisers that this might be “the greatest accomplishment of my administratio…
Still Debating Vietnam
Biting the Land that Feeds You
Throughout the Cold War, the United States struggled to understand the principles that underlay North Korean behavior in the international arena. In the post-Korean War years, American policymakers saw Pyongyang as simply a communist puppet, a servile pawn directed by Moscow and Peking. That framework was shattered when the Cold War ended but American officials still sought simplistic answers to explain DPRK behavior, usually concluding that thei…
Richard A. Mobley, Flash Point North Korea
January 01 2006 Richard A. Mobley, Flash Point North Korea: The Pueblo and EC-121 Crises Mitchell Lerner Mitchell Lerner Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mitchell Lerner Ohio State University Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Journal of Cold War Studies (2006) 8 (2): 136–137. https://doi.org/10.1162/jc…
A Dangerous Miscalculation
When North Korean forces seized an American intelligence ship, the USS Pueblo, in international waters on 23 January 1968, U.S. officials assumed that the attack had been orchestrated in conjunction with the Soviet Union, Communist China, or both. Based on this assumption, the Johnson administration contacted Soviet leaders and asked them to resolve the matter. But it turned out that Moscow could do little. Newly available documentation shows tha…
The Pueblo Incident
Howard Arthur Tibbs, 1919-1986
"Give each day your best," Howard Tibbs used to say, "and the best is bound to come back to you." Tibbs, an African American from Salem, Ohio, who served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, was a man who lived in accordance with that principle. For Tibbs in April 1943, giving his best meant leaving the only life he had ever known to answer his nation's call to arms. He spent much of World War II traveling from base to base in the service o…
A Failure of Perception
“The key question,” declared the New York Times on 28 January 1968, “is why did they do it?”1 Five days earlier, North Korean (DPRK) forces had surrounded the USS Pueblo, an ex-cargo carrier that the U.S. Navy had converted for electronic intelligence collection, while it lay dead in the water off their eastern coast. Anticipating the routine harassment common in such missions, Commander Lloyd Bucher maintained his position despite being badly ou…
A Dangerous Miscalculation
When North Korean forces seized an American intelligence ship, the USS Pueblo, in international waters on 23 January 1968, U.S. officials assumed that the attack had been orchestrated in conjunction with the Soviet Union, Communist China, or both. Based on this assumption, the Johnson administration contacted Soviet leaders and asked them to resolve the matter. But it turned out that Moscow could do little. Newly available documentation shows tha…
The Pueblo Incident
The Death of Liberal Internationalism
The election of Donald J. Trump unsettled many areas of U.S . foreign policy, but few more than the nation’s relationship with Korea. This article argues that the Trump administration’s vision for the world represents a stark break from the tradition of liberal internationalism and instead seeks to take the United States down a path that reflects the modern business practices of giant American corporations. A suitable label for this vision, as th…
A Failure of Perception
“The key question,” declared the New York Times on 28 January 1968, “is why did they do it?”1 Five days earlier, North Korean (DPRK) forces had surrounded the USS Pueblo, an ex-cargo carrier that the U.S. Navy had converted for electronic intelligence collection, while it lay dead in the water off their eastern coast. Anticipating the routine harassment common in such missions, Commander Lloyd Bucher maintained his position despite being badly ou…
The Pueblo Incident
Howard Arthur Tibbs, 1919-1986
"Give each day your best," Howard Tibbs used to say, "and the best is bound to come back to you." Tibbs, an African American from Salem, Ohio, who served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, was a man who lived in accordance with that principle. For Tibbs in April 1943, giving his best meant leaving the only life he had ever known to answer his nation's call to arms. He spent much of World War II traveling from base to base in the service o…
A Dangerous Miscalculation
When North Korean forces seized an American intelligence ship, the USS Pueblo, in international waters on 23 January 1968, U.S. officials assumed that the attack had been orchestrated in conjunction with the Soviet Union, Communist China, or both. Based on this assumption, the Johnson administration contacted Soviet leaders and asked them to resolve the matter. But it turned out that Moscow could do little. Newly available documentation shows tha…
Richard A. Mobley, Flash Point North Korea
January 01 2006 Richard A. Mobley, Flash Point North Korea: The Pueblo and EC-121 Crises Mitchell Lerner Mitchell Lerner Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mitchell Lerner Ohio State University Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Journal of Cold War Studies (2006) 8 (2): 136–137. https://doi.org/10.1162/jc…
Biting the Land that Feeds You
Throughout the Cold War, the United States struggled to understand the principles that underlay North Korean behavior in the international arena. In the post-Korean War years, American policymakers saw Pyongyang as simply a communist puppet, a servile pawn directed by Moscow and Peking. That framework was shattered when the Cold War ended but American officials still sought simplistic answers to explain DPRK behavior, usually concluding that thei…
Trying to Find the Guy Who Invited Them”
Lyndon Johnson was jubilant on August 20, 1968. The next morning, the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union planned to announce the opening of arms limitation talks, which would include a likely presidential journey to Moscow in October. For LBJ, it was to be one of the highest points of his presidency. Over a celebratory drink that afternoon, he told his advisers that this might be “the greatest accomplishment of my administratio…
Still Debating Vietnam
To be Shot at by the Whites and Dodged by the Negroes”
Although Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential record clearly established him as a committed champion of African American civil rights, the origins of this commitment remain less clear. This article examines LBJ's record as head of the Texas National Youth Administration (NYA) in the mid‐1930s to argue that he demonstrated a genuine commitment to racial equality much earlier than many accounts suggest. Furthermore, in an attempt to offer a fuller unde…
A Big Tree of Peace and Justice”
Journal Article “A Big Tree of Peace and Justice”: The Vice Presidential Travels of Lyndon Johnson Get access Mitchell Lerner Mitchell Lerner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 357–393, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00852.x Published: 05 March 2010
The foreign policy of Lyndon B. Johnson
Jonathan Colman, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, viii+231 pp Commenting on the ‘difficulty’ of evaluating modern presidents, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in 1997 singled out Lyndon Johnson
Of Derma and Diplomacy
I love stuffed derma. Readers who, like me, grew up with an exceedingly Jewish grandmother in Brooklyn know exactly what that means. For those unfamiliar with derma (goyim, my grandmother would say, each syllable dripping with a combination of sadness and disdain similar to the way Michele Bachmann says “Obamacare” or I say “New York Yankees”), this traditional delicacy can be hard to picture, especially since my grandmother's version was so tend…
Beyond the Cold War
On 10 June 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered the commencement address at the College of the Holy Cross. He began his speech by talking about the Cold War, committing his administration to the pursuit of peace and coexistence. Quickly, however, Johnson went a different direction, warning the students about a host of emerging international problems that had been largely ignored because of the focus on superpower relations. Even if the Cold…
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot
Robert Harold Duke. LBJ and Grassroots Federalism
Journal Article Robert Harold Duke. LBJ and Grassroots Federalism: Congressman Bob Poage, Race, and Change in Texas. Get access Robert Harold Duke. LBJ and Grassroots Federalism: Congressman Bob Poage, Race, and Change in Texas. (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, no. 122.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 248. $45.00. Mitchell Lerner Mitchell Lerner The Ohio State University…
Masuda Hajimu. Cold War Crucible
Kim Seong-chil was a thirty-seven-year-old history professor at Seoul University when North Korean forces crossed the thirty-eighth parallel in June 1950. However, the North Korean soldiers who soon occupied his town did not frighten him; instead, Kim wrote in his diary, “They don’t look like the enemy. They look more like brothers, who left home and lived somewhere far away, just making a visit” (58). Kim was killed in 1951 but his voice, and th…
The Death of Liberal Internationalism
The election of Donald J. Trump unsettled many areas of U.S . foreign policy, but few more than the nation’s relationship with Korea. This article argues that the Trump administration’s vision for the world represents a stark break from the tradition of liberal internationalism and instead seeks to take the United States down a path that reflects the modern business practices of giant American corporations. A suitable label for this vision, as th…
Loving America but Loving Korea More
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