American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division

by Michael Cohen

Book Overview

In his presidential inaugural address of January 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson offered an uplifting vision for America, one that would end poverty and racial injustice. Elected in a landslide over the conservative Republican Barry Goldwater and bolstered by the so-called liberal consensus, economic prosperity, and a strong wave of nostalgia for his martyred predecessor, John F. Kennedy, Johnson announced the most ambitious government agenda in decades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019977756X
• ISBN13: 9780199777563
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.4"