Title:
American poverty : presidential failures and a call to action / Woody Klein ; foreword by William J. vanden Heuvel.
Author:
Klein, Woody, 1929-
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2013.
Call Number:
HC110 .P6 K547 2013
Geographic Term:
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781612341941
9781612341958
Physical Description:
xxviii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
The early Republic (1789-1829): Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams -- Jacksonian Democracy (1829-1853): Jackson, Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore -- Sectional conflict (1853-1881): Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Hayes -- The Gilded Age (1881-1897): Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland -- The Progressive Era (1897-1921): McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson -- The era of big business (1921-1932): Harding, Coolidge, Hoover -- Depression and social change (1932-1961): Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower -- The War on Poverty and its aftermath (1961-1981): Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter -- Globalization (1981-2012): Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama.
Personal Author:
Copies:
