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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 periodits social, cultural, and economic facets as well as its political developments.

Decade of Disillusionment

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/09/1976
      ISBN13: 9780253202017, 978-0253202017
      ISBN10: 0253202019
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      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 periodits social, cultural, and economic facets as well as its political developments.

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