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Your work was extremely helpful in putting the entire project and process into perspective. An outstanding academic study of a very serious subject. Both thought provoking and well researched

Bender debunks this mythology by pointing out that Latinas/os have been in what is today the United States from the earliest moments of the republic, and by presenting a well-researched and through portrayal of the misrepresentation of Latinas/os in American mass-media popular culture. He also identifies the long multicultural history of the United States, and how Latinas/os belong in and positively contribute to this varied cultural mosaic. His careful, thorough and occasionally painful analysis of the stereotypes about Latinas/os that are prevalent in American popular culture are important reminders that the struggle for equality is an ongoing process.

As Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol, a colleague of mine at the University of Florida, wrote in a review of this book: "(Bender) proposes a multi-dimensional attack on the propagation of stereotypes by using law and litigation, voluntary industry standards and hiring practices, counter speech, and community-based protest as its tools...He beautifully and lovingly juxtaposes the ever-important familia as a countervailing force to the negative stereotyping propounded by the media ..." Bender uses the counter-narrative of his strong Mexican-American family upbringing to illustrate the importance of engaging negative stereotypes with positive personal and community examples.

Although he is a fellow law professor, Bender has avoided unnecessary jargon to write an eminently accessible book that will make powerful and enlightening reading for any well-educated person.

"Book Review: Guns or Butter: the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson by Irving Bernstein.

"Warfare, rioting, assassinations: mayhem continues to be the dominant image of America in the mid-1960s, with Lyndon Johnson presiding. This book is intended to redress an 'unfair balance' in the treatment of the man and his time in office, which has skewed our perception almost exclusively to what went wrong.

"The tragedy of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, according to the author of this new political biography, was that Johnson believed that he could have both guns and butter - that his vision of the United States as a 'great society' could be fulfilled alongside the waging of war in southeast Asia. It was to be a tragedy of epic proportions.

"In the aftermath of Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, and especially after the Democrats' landslide victory in the presidential election a year later, Johnson set about the task of continuing and extending his predecessor's liberal reform programme. Legislative achievements included the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, and a series of progressive measures relating to immigration, education and conservation. Together they constituted a new 'New Deal': FDR was LBJ's political hero.

"With rapid economic growth in the mid-1960s, the Democrats could have looked forward to a lengthy stay in office during which Johnson's vision of the 'great society' might have been made still more a reality. But his decision to engage US military forces in the long-running conflict in Vietnam changed everything.

"Bernstein has produced a very readable narrative of the domestic triumphs and foreign travails of the Johnson administration, richly documented from the archives of the LBJ presidential library in Austin, Texas. His book gives fascinating insights into the American political process, and into Johnson's complex personality.

"Despite the author' s hope to rehabilitate LBJ's reputation by focussing on the domestic accomplishments, it is the descent into the quagmire of Vietnam that comes to dominate his account. The style of writing is often vivid, sometimes colloquial, always lucid. There are useful historical backgrounds given to all the issues under discussion, and brief biographical sketches of the principal policy-makers in the Johnson administration. The book is generously illustrated, and is a storehouse of material from which teachers and students can draw readily for a better understanding of those dramatic years of American hope and despair, dream and nightmare, over which LBJ presided."

American Studies Today Online

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