President of the other America : Robert Kennedy and the politics of poverty /
Schmitt, Edward R.,1970-
Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-311) and index.
From the New Deal to the new frontier : postwar prosperity, poverty, and the Kennedys -- At the fulcrum of the movement : deciding time -- Poverty and justice : defining a federal role -- Troubles and trials : from Dallas to Watts -- The education of a senator : seeking a "greater society" -- "Born in a storm" : the Bedford-Stuyvesant experiment -- "It became his issue" : fighting for the war on poverty -- "You can't deny these people the presidency" : the 1968 campaign.
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
Poverty
Presidents