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Documenting the transformation of American welfare philosophy, this study shows how policy failure, the war in Vietnam, domestic violence and the struggle for black equality combined to create a climactic crisis in national politics which destroyed the promise of the Great Society.
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"In this exceptional book Davies charts the changing nature of Great Society liberalism from the early 1960s through the early 1970s. In fascinating detail he tells the story of how many leading liberals, including senior members of the Johnson administration, began to see the methods initially chosen to fight the War on Poverty as inadequate. His book not only deserves but needs to be read by any student of the 1960s and American liberalism, or anyone interested in the contemporary welfare reform debate."--American Politics Review
"A lively, exceptionally readable, and, on the whole, convincing analysis of the downward path of the welfare state in the United States."--Journal of American History
"An insightful inquiry into the march of the liberals away from the center and into the political wilderness."--American Historical Review
"Davies's argument is so well constructed that it merits serious attention from all students interested in the making and unmaking of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Highly recommended."--Choice
"A well-written, coherent, and rich portrait of a turbulent era."--Journal of Politics
"Reading Davies's account, one sees afresh how the Great Society became the Great Punching Bag for a generation of conservatives and neoconservatives."--Hugh Heclo, author of A Government of Strangers
"Davies's excellent book rests on extraordinarily deep research, is written with clarity and verve, and deserves a wide readership."--James T. Patterson, author of Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
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Documenting the transformation of American welfare philosophy, this study shows how policy failure, the war in Vietnam, domestic violence and the struggle for black equality combined to create a climactic crisis in national politics which destroyed the promise of the Great Society.
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