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Mark A. Lawrence
Mark A. Lawrence, a historian, is the director of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, where he previously taught as a professor of history. His most recent book is “The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era.”