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Reparations to Poverty: Domestic Policy in America- Ten Years After the Great Society
Contributor(s): Loesche-Scheller, Brigitta (Author)
ISBN: 3906755533     ISBN-13: 9783906755533
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
OUR PRICE:   $123.45  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: December 1995
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Development - Business Development
- Business & Economics | Economics - General
- History | United States - 20th Century
LCCN: 96157469
Lexile Measure: 1550
Series: Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie
Physical Information: 476 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
- Why did America launch a war on poverty in 1964?
- What forces doomed the noble campaign from the start?
- Who paid the cost of escalation and failure?
In "Reparations to Poverty," an outside observer identifies six antagonistic forces that provoked, obstructed, and ultimately defeated the greatest ambition of the Great Society if not human experience: Public versus Private; Federal versus State and Local; Urban versus Rural and Suburban; Mainstream versus Minorities; Prevention versus Relief; and, in particular, Economic versus Social Policy. How each antagonism shaped and doomed the war on poverty and its legacy is traced in the records of participants, observers, and in a wealth of unpublished sources.