Who Cares? : : Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age / / Elisabeth S. Jacobs, Katherine S. Newman.
Americans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 36 line illus. 4 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Devoted to the Common Good?
- 1. Dissent and the New Deal
- 2. Warring over the War on Poverty
- 3. Economic Anxiety in the New Gilded Age
- 4. Searching for "the Better Angels of Our Nature"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index