The Promised Land (1991) 

by Nicholas Lemann

 

Part Three: Washington (pp. 111-221)

 

1.      The Presidential Election of 1960 (111-117)

2.      The Post War Liberal Consensus  (117-127)

3.      The Left Wing Egg Heads (117-123)

4.      Anomie and Ghetto Related Behaviors (120-22)

5.      David Hackett, RFK and the Radical Chic (123-29)

6.      Michael Harrington’s The Other America (1962) (129-31)

7.      Cabinet Level Politics: New Frontier vs. New Deal (130-31)

8.      The Origin of the Community Action Program (132-34)

9.      JFK Cools on Idea of Anti-Poverty Program and then is Assassinated (134-35)

10.  LBJ Becomes President: The Great Society (134-40)

11.  Hackett’s Community Action Becomes Centerpiece of War on Poverty (140-145)

12.  Sargent Shriver and the Office of Economic Opportunity (145-150)

13.   Treating a Culture of Poverty: Community Action, Head Start, and the Job Corps (150-153)

14.  New Dealers at Labor Stymied (153-55)

15.  The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (156-58)

16.  1965: The Perfect Political Storm (158-64)

17.  Black Power (158-64)

18.  Scandal (164-65)

19.  Opposition by Mayors (166-67)

20.  Opposition in Cabinet (168)

21.  Oversized, Rash Roll-Out (169-70)

22.  1965:Selma to Montgomery March;  LBJ: “We Shall Overcome” (171)

23.  1965: Watts Riots and Vietnam Escalation (171)

24.  1965: Intellectual Coup d’état: The Moynihan Report and the Turn Towards Welfare (171-76)

25.  The Disintegration of the Liberal Coalition and Black Power (176-81)

26.  LBJ Rivalry With RFK (182-91)

27.  What Might Have Been? (192-202)

28.  Nixon, Moynihan and Welfare (202-210)

29.  Justifying the Family Assistance Plan (210-214)

30.  Nixon Turns Right (214-221)