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The Best of Intentions
Irwin Unger
其他書名
The Triumphs and Failures of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon
出版Doubleday, 1996
主題History / United States / 20th CenturyPolitical Science / Public Policy / Social Services & WelfarePolitical Science / Public Policy / Economic PolicyPolitical Science / Public Policy / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / Social Policy
ISBN03854683349780385468336
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ubJ0LIEQxNAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The Best of Intentions explores the politics, the people, and the ins and outs of the Great Society programs - and how, inevitably, they began to go awry. Beginning with the Kennedy administration's early, futile efforts to alter the social landscape of poverty and education, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Irwin Unger traces the evolution of the Great Society programs and agenda, chronicling the relentless and savvy persistence of LBJ to push JFK's programs through - and make them his own. Yet almost on the eve of his triumph, the foundation of the Great Society had already begun to shift and crumble. Now, thirty years later, the Republican Congress is reconsidering those Great Society programs, arguing that they have grown to consume the national budget and reshape, to our detriment, social policy. An epic exploration of people and politics in an age of unrest, The Best of Intentions is the first comprehensive history of a legislative program that continues to dominate today's political scene.