In the history of the United States, few periods could more justly
be regarded as the best and worst of times than the Kennedy-Johnson
era. The arrival of John F. Kennedy in the White House in 1961
unleashed an unprecedented wave of hope and optimism in a large
segment of the population; a wave that would come crashing down
when he was assassinated only a few years later. His successor,
Lyndon B. Johnson, enjoyed less popularity, but he was one of the
most experienced and skilled presidents the country had ever seen,
and he promised a Great Society to rival Kennedy's New Frontier.
Both presidents were dogged by foreign policy disasters: Kennedy by
the Bay of Pigs fiasco, although he came out ahead on the Cuban
missile crisis, and Johnson from the backlash of the Vietnam War.
The 1960s witnessed unprecedented progress toward racial and sexual
equality, but it also played host to race and urban riots. And
while impressive advances in the sciences and arts were fueling the
American imagination, the counterculture rejected it all. The
Historical Dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson Era relates these
events and provides extensive political, economic, and social
background on this era through a detailed chronology, an
introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and several hundred
cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, events,
institutions, policies, and issues.
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