Table of Contents

part i

1. The Liberals, the Candidate, and the Election of 1960 3
2. Kennedy, Keynes, and the Corporations 30
3. Politics and Principle: The Issue of Civil Rights 60
4. Origins of the War on Poverty 97

part ii

5. The Election of 1964 131
6. War, Inflation, and Farewell to Keynes 153
7. Civil Rights: Triumph and Retreat 180
8. War on Poverty I: The Failure of the Welfare State 217
9. War on Poverty II: The Strange History of Community Action 243

part iii

10. Rise and Fall of a Counterculture 275
11. Rise and Fall of the New Left 308
12. Black Power 345
13. The War, the Liberals, and the Overthrow of LBJ 376
14. Rout of the Liberals: The Election of 1968 395

Bibliographic Note 441

Notes 443

Index 523