Patterson, James T.

The eve of destruction : how 1965 transformed America / James T. Patterson. - New York : Basic Books, c2012. - xvi, 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

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.

9780465013586 (alk. paper) 9780465033485 (ebook)

2012033786


Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.


Estados Unidos--Historia--1961-1969.
Estados Unidos--Política y gobierno--1963-1969.
United States--History--1961-1969.
United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.
United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

002 E846 / P317e 2012

973.923