Turning Point: LBJ, Vietnam, the Great Society, and the Month That Defined His Presidency

A pivotal month. A presidency transformed. A nation forever changed.

In Turning Point, independent historian Ryan S. Walters delivers a gripping, day-by-day narrative of the most decisive month of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency—when the paths of Vietnam, the Great Society, and American political history converged.

This powerful new work reveals how a single month produced the turning points that shaped LBJ’s legacy. From the controversial Gulf of Tonkin incident—and the deceptive intelligence...