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Title

Shapers of the great debate on the Great Society : a biographical dictionary / Lawson Bowling.

Author

Bowling, Lawson, 1954-

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.

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Details

Description

xvii, 320 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

• "In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson announced his vision of the Great Society, a plan to use the power of the national government to create a better society. Johnson's Great Society was all-encompassing, but the debate about its particulars centered on specific questions dealing with civil rights, poverty, federal aid to education, health care, and the proper role of the national government and its appropriate limitation. This work describes the lives of the individuals involved in these debates and presents their varying perspectives on these issues. Readers will understand how both these individuals' lives and the times in which they found themselves living shaped their political and philosophical views.
• Biographies include Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Strom Thurmond, and Edith Green. An introductory essay, an appendix of shorter entries on additional figures, and a bibliography are also included."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Shapers of the great American debates, 1099-2693 ; no. 5

Uniform Title

Shapers of the great American debates no. 5.

Subject

• 1961-1969
• Geschichte 1963-1969
• Politicians > United States > Dictionaries
• Social reformers > United States > Dictionaries
• Intellectuals > United States > Dictionaries
• United States > Politics and government > 1963-1969 > Dictionaries
• United States > History > 1961-1969 > Dictionaries
• United States > Social policy > Dictionaries

Genre/Form

• Biographies – Dictionaries
• Dictionaries
• History
• Biographie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Building a Great Society -- Michael Harrington -- prophet b. Lyndon Johnson, mover and shaker -- Wilber Cohen, fulfilling and extending a dream -- Richard Goodwin, believer -- Walter Reuther, American social democrat f. Joseph Califano, point man -- Sargent Shriver, the travails of implementation -- Martin Luther King, Jr, extending the dream -- Challenging the Great Society -- Barry Goldwater, prophet of a new Right -- William F. Buckley, Jr., genial crusader -- Tom Hayden, young New Leftist -- Stokely Carmichael, young black radical -- Strom Thurmond, harbinger of realignment -- Edward Banfield, "what crisis?" -- Both For and Against -- Wilbur Mills, man of ways and means -- Everett Dirksen, man of the hour -- Richard Daley, "boss" in a changing world -- Edith Green, mainstream party regular -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, policy man.

ISBN

0313314349 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004017980

OCLC

• 56111824
• SCSB-11699262

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library