Patterson, James T.
New York : Basic Books, c2012.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• High expectations : America in late 1964 — Gathering storms : politics and Vietnam in late 1964 — LBJ : big man in a big hurry — Out-Roosevelting Roosevelt : Johnson and the Great Society — Bloody Sunday : struggles for justice in Selma — Fork in the road : winter escalation in Vietnam — Maximum feasible participation : complications on the domestic front — A credibility gap — The times they are a-changin : technology, music, and fights for rights in mid-1965 — Bombshell from Saigon — Violence in the streets : Watts and the undermining of liberalism — Eve of destruction : the rise of unease — From crisis to crisis : the Great Society and the challenge of government — America at the end of 1965 — 1966.
• Argues that 1965, not 1968, was the most transformative year of the 1960s, discussing attacks on civil rights demonstrators, increased African American militancy, the Watts riots, anti-war protests, and a growing national pessimism.

Subjects:

• United States — History — 1961-1969.
• United States — Politics and government — 1963-1969.
• United States — Social conditions — 1960-1980.
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 — United States.

Requested by Lansing, M