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How and why Johnson got his Great Society and War on Poverty programs enacted, and how they were undone by the Vietnam war and domestic violence.
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Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism
2016, Basic Books
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in English
9780465040963
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Table of Contents
Contents
Page vii
Introduction.
The Paradox of Reform
Page 1
1.
"I Am a Roosevelt New Dealer": Liberalism Ascendant
Page 15
2.
Funding the Great Society and the Ware on Poverty
Page 43
3.
The Second Reconstruction
Page 75
4.
The Mandate: The Election of 1964
Page 101
5.
Liberal Nationalism Versus the American Creed: The Great Society from Schoolroom to Hospital
Page 127
6.
March to Freedom: Selma and the Voting Rights Act
Page 157
7.
Cultures of Poverty
Page 183
8.
Progressivism Redux: The Challenges of Social Engineering
Page 197
9.
Nativism at Bay: Immigration and the Latino Movement
Page 217
10.
The New Conservation
Page 227
11.
Guns and Butter
Page 239
12.
The Search for a New Kind of Freedom
Page 261
13.
The Imp of the Perverse: Community Action and Welfare Rights
Page 283
14.
Reform Under Siege
Page 293
15.
Whiplash: Urban Rioting and the War on Crime
Page 309
16.
A "Rice-Roots Revolution": The Great Society in Vietnam
Page 237
17.
Abdication
Page 339
18.
American Dystopia
Page 359
Conclusion
Page 391
Acknowledgments
Page 403
Notes
Page 405
Index
Page 447
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