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082 0 4 _a338.973
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aNewman, Katherine S.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aWho Cares? :
_bPublic Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age /
_cElisabeth S. Jacobs, Katherine S. Newman.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.) :
_b36 line illus. 4 tables.
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction. Devoted to the Common Good? --
_t1. Dissent and the New Deal --
_t2. Warring over the War on Poverty --
_t3. Economic Anxiety in the New Gilded Age --
_t4. Searching for "the Better Angels of Our Nature" --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aAmericans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and letters to presidents from average citizens. This evidence, some of it little known, reveals a much darker, more impatient attitude toward the poor, the unemployed, and the dispossessed during the 1930s and 1960s. Katherine Newman and Elisabeth Jacobs show that some of the social policies that Americans take for granted today suffered from declining public support just a few years after their inception. Yet Americans have been equally unenthusiastic about efforts to dismantle social programs once they are well established. Again contrary to popular belief, conservative Republicans had little public support in the 1980s and 1990s for their efforts to unravel the progressive heritage of the New Deal and the Great Society. Whether creating or rolling back such programs, leaders like Roosevelt, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan often found themselves working against public opposition, and they left lasting legacies only by persevering despite it. Timely and surprising, Who Cares? demonstrates not that Americans are callous but that they are frequently ambivalent about public support for the poor. It also suggests that presidential leadership requires bold action, regardless of opinion polls.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
650 0 _aEconomics
_zUnited States
_y20th century.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.
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700 1 _aJacobs, Elisabeth S.
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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