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Published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ and London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0813533414ISBN 13: 9780813533414
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 254pp., viii. NAP. Glossy wraps illustrated with full front cover, tinted photo-illustration of "A limousine carries Adm. Chester Nimitz past the U.S. Capitol, October 5, 1945", with thin white trim around perimeters, title lettering in black across top front cover, editor name lettering in smaller black letters at left upper middle front cover. Contributions in three Parts ("The Social Sciences Come to Washington"; "The Social Sciences as Process and Procedure"; and "Have the Social Sciences Mattered in Washington?") and nine Chapters (with Notes at ends of chapters): Hamilton Cravens, "Introduction: The Social Sciences, the Federal Government, and the Age of Modernism", pp. 1-3; Cravens, "American Social Science and the Invention of Affirmative Action, 1920's-1970's", pp. 9-40; Michael A. Bernstein, "American Economics and Public Purpose after Depression and War," pp. 41-59; Harvey M. Sapolsky, "The Science and Politics of Defense Analysis," pp. 67-77; Philip L. Frana, "A Risk Perceived is a Risk Indeed," pp. 78-109; Howard P. Segal, "Postwar Science and Technology Policy," pp. 110-128; Hal Rothman, "The Road to NEPA, EPA, and Earth Day", pp. 135-154; Kristen D. Nawrotzski, Anna Mills Smith, and Maris Vinovskis, "A Historical Analysis of Developments in Head Start, Kindergartens, and Day Care", pp. 155-180; Zane L. Miller, "Cultural Individualism, Hyperdiversity, and the Devolution of National Urban Policy", pp. 181-213; William Graebner, "Narrating Welfare's Decline, from the Moynihan Report (1965) to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (1996)", pp. 214-232; Cravens, "Afterword", pp. 233-235; Index, 239-254. UNREAD. (No previous owner names.).