American poverty
Subtitle: presidential failures and a call to action
By: Woody Klein ; foreword by William J. vanden Heuvel
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781612341941
Subjects: Economic policy; Poverty; History; Government policy; Domestic Economic assistance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: The early Republic (1789-1829): Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams; title: Jacksonian Democracy (1829-1853): Jackson, Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore; title: Sectional conflict (1853-1881): Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Hayes; title: The Gilded Age (1881-1897): Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland; title: The Progressive Era (1897-1921): McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson; title: The era of big business (1921-1932): Harding, Coolidge, Hoover; title: Depression and social change (1932-1961): Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower; title: The War on Poverty and its aftermath (1961-1981): Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter; title: Globalization (1981-2012): Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama.