The Eve of Destruction
Subtitle: How 1965 Transformed America
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780465013586
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Preface: 1965: Hinge for the Sixties
pagenum: xi; label: 1
title: High Expectations: America in Late 1964
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Gathering Storms: Politics and Vietnam in Late 1964
pagenum: 19; label: 3
title: LBJ: Big Man in a Hurry
pagenum: 33; label: 4
title: Out-Roosevelting Roosevelt:  Johnson and the Great Society
pagenum: 49; label: 5
title: Bloody Sunday:  Struggles for Justice in Selma
pagenum: 65; label: 6
title: Fork in the Road:  Escalation in Vietnam
pagenum: 89; label: 7
title: "Maximum Feasible Participation":  Complications on the Domestic Front
pagenum: 109; label: 8
title: A Credibility Gap
pagenum: 125; label: 9
title: "The Times They Are A-Changin'": Technology, Music, and Fights for Rights in Mid-1965
pagenum: 141; label: 10
title: Bombshell from Saigon
pagenum: 159; label: 11
title: Violence in the Streets:  Watts and the Undermining of Liberalism
pagenum: 177; label: 12
title: Eve of Destruction:  The Rise of Unease
pagenum: 191; label: 13
title: From Crisis to Crisis:  The Great Society and the Challenge of Government
pagenum: 203; label: 14
title: America at the End of 1965
pagenum: 219; title: Epilogue: 1966 and the Later Sixties
pagenum: 235; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 249; title: Notes
pagenum: 251; title: A Note on Sources
pagenum: 289; title: Index
pagenum: 295