Capturing a Moment
Review of The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
… to social change, in the White House. Patterson finds the national mood upbeat as LBJ trounced Barry Goldwater in late … protestors attempting to march to the state capitol gained national media attention and galvanized Johnson’s push for a … agenda on race, distancing himself from Moynihan’s call for national action and turning his attention to an anticrime …