Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer

by Wendell E. Pritchett

Book Overview

From his role as Franklin Roosevelt's "negro advisor" to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advocates of the twentieth century. This volume, the first biography of the first African American to hold a cabinet position in the federal government, rescues from obscurity the story of a man whose legacy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226684482
• ISBN13: 9780226684482
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"