This book offers a brief history of domestic public policy since the New Deal. To understand issues such as poverty, immigration, and religious liberty going into the future, it is vital to understand how these issues originated and developed. This is a supplementary text for introduction to public policy courses at the undergraduate level.
Rich with implications for current debates over citizenship and welfare policy, this book provides a detailed historical account of how governing institutions and public policies shape social status and civic life.
Everyone agrees that Social Security's future is in jeopardy—or is it? Long viewed as the "third rail" of American politics, Social Security is a major political issue, and many experts...
New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it and benefited from it, including ...
Exploring the consequences of these ill-defined (and never-ending) wars, this book calls for a re-examination of this destructive approach to governance.
This essential guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal provides a wealth of information, analysis, biographical profiles, primary documents and current resources that will help students to understand...
This book is the first to use recently available archival materials documenting the consequences of World War II for the programs and political agendas of the welfare state.
This volume showcases the most exciting new voices in the fields of business and political history.
As chronicled in New Deal Ruins, however, housing policy since the 1990s has turned to the demolition of public housing in favor of subsidized units in mixed-income communities and the use of tenant-based vouchers rather than direct housing ...
Based on extensive research, Modern Manors greatly advances the study of corporate and union power in the twentieth century.
... Susan Blackmore CONTEMPORARY ART Julian Stallabrass CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Simon Critchley COSMOLOGY Peter Coles ... Sorell DESIGN John Heskett DINOSAURS David Norman DOCUMENTARY FILM Patricia Aufderheide DREAMING J. Allan Hobson ...