Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City - The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer

Informationen zum Autor Wendell E. Pritchett is chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden. He is the author of Brownsville! Brooklyn: Blacks! Jews! and the Changing Face of the Ghetto! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Tracing Robert Clifton Weaver's career through the creation! expansion! and contraction of New Deal liberalism! this book illuminates his instrumental role in the birth of almost every urban initiative of the period! from public housing and urban renewal to affirmative action and rent control. Zusammenfassung Tracing Robert Clifton Weaver's career through the creation! expansion! and contraction of New Deal liberalism! this book illuminates his instrumental role in the birth of almost every urban initiative of the period! from public housing and urban renewal to affirmative action and rent control.

Product details

• Authors: Wendell E. Pritchett, Pritchett Wendell E.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2014
• EAN: 9780226214016
• ISBN: 978-0-226-21401-6
• No. of pages: 444
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Ethnic Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, Urban & municipal planning, United States of America, USA, Biography: historical, political and military, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional