Lyndon Johnson's America: Pt..4 - The Crisis

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)

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices