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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. LBJ yearned to complete the progressive movement from early in the 20th century. The Great Society was aimed at improving America. The agenda aimed at achieving security against lives vicissitude through federal intervention. The issues brought on by the new urban industrial society expressed modern liberalism's faith in rational, benevolent, centralized planning in a world of graft, inefficiency, consumer vulnerability, predatory economic power, and social inequality. All of the presidents in this work had the best of intentions but the programs were a complete failure. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"The Best of Intentions explores the politics, the people, and the ins and outs of the Great Society programs - and how, inevitably, they began to go awry. Beginning with the Kennedy administration's early, futile efforts to alter the social landscape of poverty and education, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Irwin Unger traces the evolution of the Great Society programs and agenda, chronicling the relentless and savvy persistence of LBJ to push JFK's programs through - and make them his own. Yet almost on the eve of his triumph, the foundation of the Great Society had already begun to shift and crumble." "Now, thirty years later, the Republican Congress is reconsidering those Great Society programs, arguing that they have grown to consume the national budget and reshape, to our detriment, social policy. An epic exploration of people and politics in an age of unrest, The Best of Intentions is the first comprehensive history of a legislative program that continues to dominate today's political scene."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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