The Great Society and the high tide of liberalism / edited by Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur.

Other author Milkis, Sidney M.
Other author Mileur, Jerome M.
Format Book
Publication InfoAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2005.
Descriptionxxi, 490 pages ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesPolitical development of the American nation
Political development of the American nation. ^A418414
Contents Lyndon Johnson, the Great Society, and the "twilight" of the modern presidency / Sidney M. Milkis -- Sixties civics / Hugh Heclo -- Pluralism, postwar intellectuals, and the demise of the union idea / Nelson Lichtenstein -- Contested rights : the Great Society between home and work / Eileen Boris -- Making pluralism "great" : beyond a recycled history of the Great Society / Brian Balogh -- Lyndon Johnson in the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt / William E. Leuchtenburg -- Great societies and great empires : Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam / Wilson Carey McWilliams -- Lyndon Johnson : means and ends, and what his presidency means in the end / David M. Shribman -- The politics of the Great Society / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- The new politics of participatory democracy viewed through a feminist lens / Rosalyn Baxandall -- Freedom from ignorance? : the Great Society and the evolution of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 / Patrick McGuinn and Frederick Hess -- Medicare : the Great Society's enduring national health insurance program / Edward Berkowitz -- Justices and justice : reflections on the Warren Court's legacy / Henry J. Abraham -- The Great Society's civil rights legacy : continuity 1, discontinuity 3 / Hugh Davis Graham -- From tax and spend to mandate and sue : liberalism after the Great Society / R. Shep Melnick -- The Great Society and the demise of New Deal liberalism / Jerome M. Mileur.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005011750
ISBN1558494936 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1558494944 (library cloth : alk. paper)

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