Social Security: Visions and Revisions: A Twentieth Century Fund Study

by W. Andrew Achenbaum

Book Overview

Franklin Roosevelt envisioned social security to be the cornerstone 'for the kind of protection America wants' from the financial troubles people faced due to old age and family tragedies. By... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521328667
• ISBN13: 9780521328661
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A terrific history of social security

This is an outstanding book. Although the policy analysis in the second half of the book is now largely outdated, the first half is a solid and thoughtful history of Social Security through the 1983 amendments. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand the origins of this important federal entitlement program.