The eve of destruction : how 1965 transformed America / James T. Patterson.
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.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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.