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From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism - Hardcover
Synopsis
Recent welfare debates sometimes invoke Lyndon Johnson's and Franklin Roosevelt's names as the promiscuous fathers of an errant welfare system, yet in reality both the "New Deal" and the "War on Poverty" were responses to a nation in crisis and also rooted in ethics closer to today's rhetoric than short-sighted readers of history would lead us to believe. Davies' examination of welfare philosophy, LBJ, the swirl of the civil rights movement, riots, and Vietnam economics traces a liberalism that embraced personal responsibility, and then abandoned the ethic in a "politics of dissent" discourse. Although the author restores the good names of Roosevelt and Johnson by his careful scholarship and even handed historical treatment, the question still remains: What is a nation's responsibility to its poor? Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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"Reading Davies's account, one sees afresh how the Great Society became the Great Punching Bag for a generation of conservatives and neoconservatives."--Hugh Heclo, author of A Government of Strangers
"Davies's excellent book rests on extraordinarily deep research, is written with clarity and verve, and deserves a wide readership."--James T. Patterson, author of Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
About the Author
Gareth Davies is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Lancaster.
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- PublisherUniv Pr of Kansas
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0700607579
- ISBN 13 9780700607570
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages336
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