Battle for Bed-Stuy : : The Long War on Poverty in New York City / / Michael Woodsworth.
In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roo...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 24 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Senator and the Secretary
- 1. A Suitcase Full of Knives
- 2. Mobilizing the Forces
- 3. From the Club house to the White House
- 4. War and Rumors of War
- 5. Maximum Feasible Bureaucratization
- 6. The Power to Act
- 7. Whose Community, What Action?
- 8. From the Ground Up
- Epilogue: Gloom and Boom
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index