Government's Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights to Homeland Security

by Paul C. Light

Book Overview

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In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary record of successes over the past half century. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, it helped rebuild Europe after World War II, conquered polio and other life-threatening diseases, faced down communism, attacked racial discrimination, reduced poverty among the elderly, and put men on the moon. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815706049
• ISBN13: 9780815706045
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A welcome antidote to the usual drumbeat of media criticism

Government's Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights To Homeland Security by Paul C. Light (Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution) is an informed history and celebration showcasing twenty-five of the American government's policy successes from 1944 to 1999. Documenting and highlighting the eradication of polio, the rebuilding of Europe after World War II, the strides made forward against racial discrimination, the reduction of poverty among the elderly, expanding the right to vote, and much, much more, Government's Greatest Achievements is an extraordinary, uplifting read which offers striking and sometimes even surprising facts. A very strongly recommended addition to both academic and community library Political Science and American History collections, Government's Greatest Achievements is a welcome antidote to the usual drumbeat of media criticism and endemic public skepticism.