Yet Johnson had his own plan, one that would both incorporate and encapsulate all the promises that he had grown up with and through, one not grounded in the alleviation of national poverty but in the potential for attacking individual poverty that the nation's postwar prosperity provided, one that would finally fulfill the promise of the United States of America: the “Great Society. In this chapter, the Battle of Five Armies occurs, and Bilbo reprises some of his former hobbit behavior when he. Bilbo is struck with a stone and passes out. The eagles who earlier saved Bilbo and the dwarves from the Wargs approach. There was, possibly, a limit to how many fresh starts any single nation could hope to sustain, especially one as new as the United States was in 1963. The Battle of Five Armies takes place: the Goblins and wild wolves (Wargs) oppose the elves, men, and dwarves. Virtually every president before him since Theodore Roosevelt had offered the nation a deal or the promise of a new start Square Deal, Fair Deal, New Deal, New Freedom, and, in 1960, a New Frontier, “a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils – a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats,” as Kennedy had described it. Johnson, abruptly elevated into the Oval Office by the assassination of Kennedy at the end of 1963, had more than his predecessor's popularity to contend with he had the legacy of more than half a century of liberalism to live up to. Winner of Americas two highest literary awards, The Armies of the Night uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixties tidal wave of love and rage at its. (Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night, 1968) America – the land where a new kind of man was born from the idea that God was present in every man not only as compassion but as power, and so the country belonged to the people. marshal and placed in a van for removal to the lockup, he had a hostile confrontation with a neo-Nazi also arrested during the demonstration.
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