Coping: essays on the practice of government
By: [by] Daniel P. Moynihan.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980
Description: The U.S. Ambassador to India comments on social and political issues in America and the importance of defining problems so solutions can be found.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: "Bosses" and "reformers."; title: The case for a family policy.; title: Traffic safety and the body politic.; title: The automobile and the courts.; title: Nirvana now.; title: The crises in welfare.; title: Education of the urban poor.; title: The politics of stability.; title: The new racialism.; title: The city in chassis.; title: Architecture in a time of trouble.; title: Maria Regina Martyrum.; title: Politics as the art of the impossible.; title: Liberalism and knowledge.; title: Policy vs. program in the 1970s.; title: On universal higher education.; title: The Presidency and the press.; title: The deepening schism.; title: Cui bono?; title: On the education of engineers.; title: Address to the entering class at Harvard College, 1972.; title: "Peace."