Great Society: A New History. Amity Shlaes
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ISBN: 9780061706424 | 528 pages | 14 Mb
- Great Society: A New History
- Amity Shlaes
- Page: 528
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- ISBN: 9780061706424
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges. Today, a battle rages in our country. Many Americans are attracted to socialism and economic redistribution while opponents of those ideas argue for purer capitalism. In the 1960s, Americans sought the same goals many seek now: an end to poverty, higher standards of living for the middle class, a better environment and more access to health care and education. Then, too, we debated socialism and capitalism, public sector reform versus private sector advancement. Time and again, whether under John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, or Richard Nixon, the country chose the public sector. Yet the targets of our idealism proved elusive. What’s more, Johnson’s and Nixon’s programs shackled millions of families in permanent government dependence. Ironically, Shlaes argues, the costs of entitlement commitments made a half century ago preclude the very reforms that Americans will need in coming decades. In Great Society, Shlaes offers a powerful companion to her legendary history of the 1930s, The Forgotten Man, and shows that in fact there was scant difference between two presidents we consider opposites: Johnson and Nixon. Just as technocratic military planning by “the Best and the Brightest” made failure in Vietnam inevitable, so planning by a team of the domestic best and brightest guaranteed fiasco at home. At once history and biography, Great Society sketches moving portraits of the characters in this transformative period, from U.S. Presidents to the visionary UAW leader Walter Reuther, the founders of Intel, and Federal Reserve chairmen William McChesney Martin and Arthur Burns. Great Society casts new light on other figures too, from Ronald Reagan, then governor of California, to the socialist Michael Harrington and the protest movement leader Tom Hayden. Drawing on her classic economic expertise and deep historical knowledge, Shlaes upends the traditional narrative of the era, providing a damning indictment of the consequences of thoughtless idealism with striking relevance for today. Great Society captures a dramatic contest with lessons both dark and bright for our own time.
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Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York John Gardner - Engineer of the Great Society Gardner joined an administration with one of the most ambitious policy agenda in American history. President Johnson wanted to create the "Great Society" -- to end poverty, promote
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Students will study the Great Society and Congress's role in shaping it. enacted the most extensive legislative program since the New Deal. And what perspective does the history of the Great Society bring to issues today?
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in the 1964 presidential election, Johnson introduced a slate of new reforms that he said would build a “Great Society” for all Americans.
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List of books and articles about Great Society | Online Research
Great Society, in U.S. history, term for the domestic policies of President The Exercise of Power By Rowland Evans; Robert Novak New American Library, 1966.
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