Prisoners of Hope
Subtitle: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 978 0 465 04096 3
Table of contents: pagenum: vii
title: Contents; pagenum: 1
title: The Paradox of Reform
label: Introduction; pagenum: 15
title: "I Am a Roosevelt New Dealer": Liberalism Ascendant
label: 1; pagenum: 43
title: Funding the Great Society and the Ware on Poverty
label: 2; pagenum: 75
title: The Second Reconstruction
label: 3; pagenum: 101
title: The Mandate: The Election of 1964
label: 4; pagenum: 127
title: Liberal Nationalism Versus the American Creed:  The Great Society from Schoolroom to Hospital
label: 5; pagenum: 157
title: March to Freedom:  Selma and the Voting Rights Act
label: 6; pagenum: 183
title: Cultures of Poverty
label: 7; pagenum: 197
title: Progressivism Redux: The Challenges of Social Engineering
label: 8; pagenum: 217
title: Nativism at Bay:  Immigration and the Latino Movement
label: 9; pagenum: 227
title: The New Conservation
label: 10; pagenum: 239
title: Guns and Butter
label: 11; pagenum: 261
title: The Search for a New Kind of Freedom
label: 12; pagenum: 283
title: The Imp of the Perverse:  Community Action and Welfare Rights
label: 13; pagenum: 293
title: Reform Under Siege
label: 14; pagenum: 309
title: Whiplash: Urban Rioting and the War on Crime
label: 15; pagenum: 237
title: A "Rice-Roots Revolution":  The Great Society in Vietnam
label: 16; pagenum: 339
title: Abdication
label: 17; pagenum: 359
title: American Dystopia
label: 18; pagenum: 391
title: Conclusion; pagenum: 403
title: Acknowledgments; pagenum: 405
title: Notes; pagenum: 447
title: Index