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Author:

Klein, Woody, 1929-

Title:

American poverty : presidential failures and a call to action / Woody Klein ; foreword by William J. vanden Heuvel.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Potomac Books,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xxviii, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Poverty--History.--United States--History.
Economic assistance, Domestic--United States--History.
United States--Economic policy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The early Republic (1789-1829): Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams -- Jacksonian Democracy (1829-1853): Jackson, Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore -- Sectional conflict (1853-1881): Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Hayes -- The Gilded Age (1881-1897): Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland -- The Progressive Era (1897-1921): McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson -- The era of big business (1921-1932): Harding, Coolidge, Hoover -- Depression and social change (1932-1961): Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower -- The War on Poverty and its aftermath (1961-1981): Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter -- Globalization (1981-2012): Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama.

ISBN:

1612341950 (electronic)
9781612341958 (electronic)
1612341942 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781612341941 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)795759559

LCCN:

2012040611

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)