From Warfare to Welfare
Subtitle: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: November 19, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801874222
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Armaments industries; Political control & freedoms; Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities; United States - General; Sociology; Political Science; United States - 20th Century; Politics/International Relations; USA; Sociology - Urban; Public Policy - Social Policy; History / United States / General; History; Urban policy; 20th century; Federal-city relations; Technology and state; United States
First sentence: At the 1966 meeting of the National League of Cities, the league's president, Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh, called attention to a troubling contradiction of the era in his opening speech.