The Eve of Destruction
How 1965 Transformed America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5705478 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Kazin (Georgetown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 913-914 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jat393 |
| OpenAlex | W2034504142 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Many undeniably significant events occurred in 1965: Congress enacted the landmark programs of the Great Society, the Watts riots revealed the depth of black rage outside the South and helped fuel a white backlash, President Lyndon B. Johnson fatefully escalated the war in Vietnam with B-52 bombers and U.S. combat troops, antiwar activists staged their first mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., and Bob Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Festival. James T. Patterson has written a lucid, often-vivid narrative about these events and more. Beginning with Johnson's claim, as he lit the National Christmas Tree at the end of 1964, that “These are the most hopeful times in all the years since Christ was born in Bethlehem” and ending with a sketch of the increasingly bloody quagmire of South Vietnam, the book deftly evokes and explains how consensus and conflict were interwoven through the public life of the nation (p. xi
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Civil rights · Literature · Martin luther king · Narrative · Political science · Sketch · Vietnam War · White (mutation · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2019 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |