Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century

by Christopher P. Loss

Book Overview

This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691163340
• ISBN13: 9780691163345
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"