An edition of Prisoners of Hope
(2016)
Prisoners of Hope
Lyndon B. Johnson, The Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism
by Randall B. Woods
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December 17, 2021 | History
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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9780465040963
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Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction. The Paradox of Reform
1. "I Am a Roosevelt New Dealer": Liberalism Ascendant
2. Funding the Great Society and the Ware on Poverty
3. The Second Reconstruction
4. The Mandate: The Election of 1964
5. Liberal Nationalism Versus the American Creed: The Great Society from Schoolroom to Hospital
6. March to Freedom: Selma and the Voting Rights Act
7. Cultures of Poverty
8. Progressivism Redux: The Challenges of Social Engineering
9. Nativism at Bay: Immigration and the Latino Movement
10. The New Conservation
11. Guns and Butter
12. The Search for a New Kind of Freedom
13. The Imp of the Perverse: Community Action and Welfare Rights
14. Reform Under Siege
15. Whiplash: Urban Rioting and the War on Crime
16. A "Rice-Roots Revolution": The Great Society in Vietnam
17. Abdication
18. American Dystopia
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Edition Notes
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| December 17, 2021 | Edited by Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten | person |
| November 3, 2016 | Edited by r. clayton | Added new cover |
| July 2, 2016 | Edited by r. clayton | added description |
| July 1, 2016 | Created by r. clayton | Added new book. |