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)