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The period from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s signaled the end of the prosperity of the postwar years enjoyed by the cities of the prairie-those cities located immediately within or adjacent to the Mississippi River drainage system, or what is usually called the American Heartland
List of contents
Introduction; I: Overview; 1: The Civil Community in the Federal System; 2: Closing the Metropolitan Frontier; 3: Political Culture and the Geology of Local Politics; 4: Continuing the Generational Rhythm; 5: Federalism versus Managerialism in the Civil Community; 2: Case Studies; 6: From Industrial City to Metropolitan Civil Community: The Politics of Constitutional Change in Pueblo; 7: Changing Expectations of Local Government in Light of the 1960s: The Cases of Champaign and Urbana; 8: The Agricommercial Tradition on the Metropolitan Frontier: Decatur; 9: The Effect of External Factors on the Medium-Sized Civil Community: The Case of Joliet
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Daniel Elazar
Summary
The period from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s signaled the end of the prosperity of the postwar years enjoyed by the cities of the prairie-those cities located immediately within or adjacent to the Mississippi River drainage system, or what is usually called the American Heartland
