Synopsis
(2/5) Charles Wheeler charts the origins and the decline of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programme, looking at how it changed the lives of poor people in Appalachia.
- Programme: Wheeler on America
- Episode: A Great Society?
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1996
- History | America | Modern USA | Protest, progress and radicalism
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