The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush

by Iwan W. Morgan

Book Overview

The debate over the federal budget-and the deficit spending it tends to produce-has assumed a renewed urgency for reasons that are painfully clear to all of us. Over the past thirty-two years-from the presidency of Jimmy Carter through that of George W. Bush-the U.S. government has in fact balanced its budget in only four of them, while the fiscal challenges confronting President Obama make a balanced budget anytime soon a remote possibility. Iwan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700616853
• ISBN13: 9780700616855
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"