Read in Chapter 31: "a growing restlessness was becoming apparent beneath the placid surface of American society. Ultimately, that restlessness would make the 1960s one of the most turbulent eras of the twentieth century. But at first, it contributed to a bold and confident effort by political leaders and popular movements to attack social and international problems with the framework of conventional liberal politics."
OEO and community action, HUD and Robert Weaver, Immigration Act of 1965, CORE and freedom rides, George Wallace, Martin L. King, MFDP and freedom summer, affirmative action and de facto segregation in the North, Watts and Detroit riots, black power, Malcolm X, Berlin Wall, Cuba quarantine, Juan Bosch, Vietminh, Geneva Conference, Ngo Dinh Diem, Buddhist crisis, Gulf of Tonkin, attrition, pacification, relocation, antiwar movement, trauma of the twin crises, Tet, Eugene McCarthy, Kennedy legacy, year of global turbulence.
