Table of Contents: Prisoners of hope

"An eminent historian charts the origins and impact of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society "--

Main Author:	Woods, Randall Bennett, 1944-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
Physical Description:	461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:	Johnson, Lyndon B. -- (Lyndon Baines), -- 1908-1973. Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Social legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century. United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969. United States -- Economic policy -- 1961-1971. United States -- Social policy -- 20th century.

Table of Contents:

The paradox of reform
"I am a Roosevelt New Dealer"; liberalism ascendant
Funding the Great Society and the War on Poverty
The second reconstruction
The mandate: the election of 1964
Liberal nationalism versus the American Creed: the Great Society form schoolroom to hospital
March to Freedom: Selma and the Voting Rights Act
Cultures of poverty
Progressivism redux: the challenges of social engineering
Nativism at bay: immigration and the Latino Movement
The new conservation
Guns and butter
The search for a new kind of freedom
The imp of the perverse: community action and welfare rights
Reform under siege
Whiplash: urban rioting and the War on Crime
A "rice-roots revolution": The great society in Vietnam
Abdication
American dystopia.