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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501709531
035 _a(DE-B1597)503463
035 _a(OCoLC)1035214992
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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_bH5913 2019
072 7 _aHIS036060
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082 0 4 _a362.5560973
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHuret, Romain D.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Experts' War on Poverty :
_bSocial Research and the Welfare Agenda in Postwar America /
_cRomain D. Huret.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (246 p.) :
_b15 b&w halftones
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aAmerican Institutions and Society
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_tPart I. A Science of Poverty (1945–1963) --
_t1. The Poverty Paradox --
_t2. The Poverty Culture --
_t3. The New Wisconsin Idea --
_t4. Beyond the Affluent Society --
_tPart II. From Science to War (1963–1974) --
_t5. An Economist at War --
_t6. A Pyrrhic Victory --
_t7. Uncertainty of Numbers, Certainty of Decisions --
_t8. A Doomed Alternative --
_tConclusion --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverté?, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II battle against poverty in the United States. John Angell's translation of Huret's work brings to light for an English-speaking audience this critical set of intellectuals working in federal government, academic institutions, and think tanks. Their efforts to create a policy bureaucracy to support federal socio-economic action spanned from the last days of the New Deal to the late 1960s when President Richard M. Nixon implemented the Family Assistance Plan. Often toiling in obscurity, this cadre of experts waged their own war not only on poverty but on the American political establishment. Their policy recommendations, as Huret clearly shows, often militated against the unscientific prejudices and electoral calculations that ruled Washington D.C. politics.The Experts' War on Poverty highlights the metrics, research, and economic and social facts these social scientists employed in their work, and thereby reveals the unstable institutional foundation of successive executive efforts to grapple with gross social and economic disparities in the United States. Huret argues that this internal war, coming at a time of great disruption due to the Cold War, undermined and fractured the institutional system officially directed at ending poverty. The official War on Poverty, which arguably reached its peak under President Lyndon B. Johnson, was thus fomented and maintained by a group of experts determined to fight poverty in radical ways that outstripped both the operational capacity of the federal government and the political will of a succession of presidents.
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 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aEconomic assistance, Domestic
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPoor
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPoverty
_xGovernment policy
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPoverty
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 4 _aPublic Policy.
650 4 _aU.S. History.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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653 _apoverty in postwar america, Welfare state, war on poverty, Lyndon B. Johnson, poverty.
700 1 _aAngell, John
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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