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A People’s War on Poverty

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Investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. Wesley G. Phelps argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy and the rights of citizenship that historians have largely overlooked.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780820346700
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 264
  • Udgivet:
  • 30. marts 2014
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x229x19 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 456 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 2. december 2024

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Investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. Wesley G. Phelps argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy and the rights of citizenship that historians have largely overlooked.

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