The Great Society and the high tide of liberalism
By: edited by Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur.
Contributors: Milkis, Sidney M.; Mileur, Jerome M.
Series: Political development of the American nation
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amherst, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon B. 1908-1973.; Liberalism -- United States.; United States -- Social policy.; United States -- Economic policy.; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lyndon Johnson, the Great Society, and the "twilight" of the modern presidency / Sidney M. Milkis; title: Sixties civics / Hugh Heclo; title: Pluralism, postwar intellectuals, and the demise of the union idea / Nelson Lichtenstein; title: Contested rights : the Great Society between home and work / Eileen Boris; title: Making pluralism "great" : beyond a recycled history of the Great Society / Brian Balogh; title: Lyndon Johnson in the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt / William E. Leuchtenburg; title: Great empires and great societies : Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam / Wilson Carey McWilliams; title: Lyndon Johnson : means and ends, and what his presidency means in the end / David M. Shribman; title: The politics of the Great Society / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward; title: The new politics of participatory democracy viewed through a feminist lens / Rosalyn Baxandall; title: Freedom from ignorance? : the Great Society and the evolution of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 / Patrick McGuinn and Frederick Hess; title: Medicare : the Great Society's enduring national health insurance program / Edward Berkowitz; title: Justices and justice : reflections on the Warren Court's legacy / Henry J. Abraham; title: The Great Society's civil rights legacy : continuity 1, discontinuity 3 / Hugh Davis Graham; title: From tax and spend to mandate and sue : liberalism after the Great Society / R. Shep Melnick; title: The Great Society and the demise of New Deal liberalism / Jerome M. Mileur.