Ebook: The eve of destruction: how 1965 transformed America

Preface:1965 : hinge for the sixties -- 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: escalation in Vietnam -- "Maximum feasible participation": complications on the domestic front -- Credibility gap -- "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 -- Epilogue: 1966 and the later sixties.;The author argues that 1965, not 1968, was the most transformative year of the 1960s, discussing attacks on civil rights demonstrators, increased African American militancy, the Watts riots, anti-war protests, and a growing national pessimism.