It's the fourth installment of our series on Lyndon Johnson's America and we are into crisis mode.
We pick up the story in mid-1967 and discuss how Vietnam, racial violence, and a host of other contentious issues rise to the fore and overwhelm Lyndon Johnson, leading to his eventual withdrawal from office.
Along the way we compare 1967/8 with today's political climate, discuss race riots, Tet, the media, the counterculture, second-wave feminism and much more.
Thanks again for listening.
Cheers,
Mark and Malcolm
Reading List
Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (2014)
Amy Wedlow, Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s. (1993)
Daniel Hallin, The 'Uncensored War':The Media and Vietnam (1986)
Christopher Gair, The American Counterculture (2007)
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