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Politics and the Professors: The Great Society in Perspective

Politics and the Professors: The Great Society in Perspective

Aaron, Henry

Paperback

Series: Studies in Social Economics

General EducationGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0815700253
ISBN13: 9780815700258
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: Feb 1 1978
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

In the early 1960s America was in a confident mood and embarked on a series of efforts to solve the problems of poverty, racial discrimination, unemployment, and inequality of educational opportunity. The programs of the Great Society and the War on Poverty were undergirded by a broad consensus about what our problems as a nation were and how we should solve them. But by the early seventies both political and scholarly tides had shifted. Americans were divided and uncertain about what to do abroad, fearful of military inferiority, and pessimistic about the capacity of government to deal affirmatively with domestic problems. A new administration renounced the rhetoric of the Great Society and changed the emphasis of many programs. On the scholarly front, new research called into question the old faiths on which liberal legislation had been based.

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