Politics and the Professors: The Great Society in Perspective

by Henry J. Aaron

Book Overview

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In the early 1960s America was in a confident mood and embarked on a series of efforts to solve the problems of poverty, racial discrimination, unemployment, and inequality of educational opportunity. The programs of the Great Society and the War on Poverty were undergirded by a broad consensus about what our problems as a nation were and how we should solve them. But by the early seventies both political and scholarly tides had shifted. Americans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815700253
• ISBN13: 9780815700258
• Release Date: February 1978
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"