Decade of Disillusionment: The Kennedy Johnson Years

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Indiana University Press, 1975 - 332 lappuses

The sixties began optimistically, with Americans full of hope and expectation, voting to support a new, young, charismatic leader who promised to "move America forward." Tragically, something went wrong. Instead of finding its Utopia, America became a country struggling desperately to escape its Armageddon. President Kennedy's New Frontier fell far short of its promise in tangible domestic legislation and his foreign policy decisions pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust, while President Johnson's dream of a Great Society foundered in the quicksand of the Vietnam war. This revealing history of the Kennedy-Johnson years begins with the presidential primaries of 1960 and concludes with Johnson's final weeks as a lame duck President. An expert and objective history of an exciting period—its social, cultural, and economic facets as well as its political developments.

 

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Introduction
1
The Torch Is Passed
14
Opening the New Frontier
49
Ambivalence and Action
94
The Unfulfilled Promise
143
Transition to the Great Society
164
The Years of Triumph
195
The Years of Frustration
238
The Legacies of Disillusionment
290
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Decade of Disillusionment: The Kennedy-Johnson Years
Jim F. Heath
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NosaukumsDecade of Disillusionment: The Kennedy Johnson Years
America since World War II
Grāmatas America since World War II: A Midland Book 201. sējums. sējums
Midland books
AutorsJim F. Heath
IzdevējsIndiana University Press, 1975
ISBN0253202019, 9780253202017
Apjoms332 lappuses
  
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