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.
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