The Republican Party and the War on Poverty : : 1964–1981 / / Mark Mclay.
Reassesses how presidents from Lyndon Johnson to Ronald Reagan dealt with the politics of the War on PovertyTraces the evolution of the modern Republican party through its approach to povertyExamines the roots of Republican opposition to antipoverty legislation, giving an insight into contemporary d...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Perspectives on the American Presidency : NPAP
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. A familiar trap: the ‘Party of Privilege’ and the War on Poverty, 1964
- 2. A path to relevance: the Republican crusade against the War on Poverty, 1965 –66
- 3. Order or justice? Republicans and the ‘urban crisis’, 1966–67
- 4. The choice and the echo: poverty politics and the 1968 campaign
- 5. The crossroads: Nixon’s early years, 1969–70
- 6. The conservative turn: Nixon, Ford, and the beginning of the end, 1971–76
- 7. The end? Poverty politics and the ‘Reagan Revolution’, 1977 –81
- Epilogue: Poverty won? Republicans and poverty, 1982–2018
- Bibliography
- Index