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Author:

Pritchett, Wendell E.

Title:

Robert Clifton Weaver and the American city : the life and times of an urban reformer / Wendell E. Pritchett.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 433 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Weaver, Robert C.--(Robert Clifton),--1907-1997.
Cabinet officers--United States--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
United States.--Dept. of Housing and Urban Development--Officials and employees--Biography.
Urban policy--United States--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
Cabinet officers--New York (State)--Biography.
African American college presidents--Biography.
Bernard M. Baruch College--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-417) and index.

Contents:

Preparing the Talented Tenth: The Weaver Family and the Black Elite -- Fighting for a Better Deal -- A Liberal Experiment: Race and Housing in the New Deal -- Creating a New Order: Black Politics in the New Deal Era -- World War II and Black Labor -- Chicago and the Science of Race Relations -- Searching for a Place to Call Home -- New York City and the Institutions of Liberal Reform -- The First Cabinet Job -- The Path to Power -- The Kennedy Years: A Reluctant New Frontier -- Fighting for Civil Rights from the Inside -- The Great Society and the City -- HUD, Robert Weaver, and the Ambiguities of Race -- Power and Its Limitations -- The Great Society, High and Low -- An Elder Statesman in a Period of Turmoil.

ISBN:

0226684482 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226684482 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)191090250

LCCN:

2008000927

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)