| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 219 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Devoted to the common good? -- Dissent and the New Deal -- Warring over the war on poverty -- Economic anxiety in the new gilded age -- Searching for "the better angels of our nature." |
| Summary |
Americans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and letters to presidents from average citizens. This evidence, some of it little known, reveals a much darker, more impatient attitude toward the poor, the unemployed, and the dispossessed during the 1930s and 1960s. Katherine Newman and Elisabeth Jacobs show that some of the social policies that Amer. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economics -- United States -- 20th century.
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Economics. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century.
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Economic policy. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1933-1945 |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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| Chronological Term |
1945-1989 |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Jacobs, Elisabeth S., 1977-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Newman, Katherine S., 1953- Who cares?. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009029407 |
| ISBN |
9781400834686 (electronic book) |
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1400834686 (electronic book) |
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9780691135632 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1282531573 |
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9781282531574 |
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