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Launching the war on poverty : an oral history /
Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely forgotten. Conceived amid the daring idealism of the 1960s, these programs originated as weapons in Lyndo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Oxford oral history series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely forgotten. Conceived amid the daring idealism of the 1960s, these programs originated as weapons in Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, an offensive spearheaded by a controversial new government agency. Within months, the Office of Economic Opportunity created an array of unconventional initiatives that empowered the poor, challenged the established order, and ultimately transformed the nation's attitudes. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 458 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199750689 0199750688 9786612613449 6612613440 |