Launching the War on Poverty - An Oral History

Zusatztext Launching the War on Poverty in its revised form will continue to provide specialists in the areas of public policy and the domestic reforms of the 1960s with an important record of one of the most ambitious programs of Johnson's Great Society. Informationen zum Autor Michael L. Gillette is Executive Director of Humanities Texas and the former director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Oral History Program. Klappentext Oral histories and secretly recorded telephone conversations dramatically reveal how Lyndon Johnson's administration waged an unprecedented war against poverty in the 1960s. Zusammenfassung Oral histories and secretly recorded telephone conversations dramatically reveal how Lyndon Johnson's administration waged an unprecedented war against poverty in the 1960s.

Product details

• Authors: Michael L. Gillette, Michael L. (Executive Director Gillette, Gillette Michael L.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.2010
• EAN: 9780195387278
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538727-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Oxford Oral History Series; Oxford Oral History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Poverty & unemployment, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Poverty and precarity