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