Title: Prisoners of Hope
Description: How and why Johnson got his Great Society and War on Poverty programs enacted, and how they were undone by the Vietnam war and domestic violence.
Subjects: American history, civil rights, Great Society, War on Poverty, Presidential-Congressional relations, liberalism
Places: Washington D.C., the South
People: Lyndon B. Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Time periods: 1960s