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New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society
Kent Germany
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Description for New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society
Paperback. In the 1960s and 1970s, New Orleans experienced one of the greatest transformations in its history. This book looks back at that era to explore how a few thousand locals tried to bring the Great Society to Dixie. It offers a detailed portrait of the complex city that developed after its last epic reconstruction. Num Pages: 424 pages, 15 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JJP; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 671.
In the 1960s and 1970s, New Orleans experienced one of the greatest transformations in its history. Its people replaced Jim Crow, fought a War on Poverty, and emerged with glittering skyscrapers, professional football, and a building so large it had to be called the Superdome. ""New Orleans after the Promises"" looks back at that era to explore how a few thousand locals tried to bring the Great Society to Dixie. With faith in God and American progress, they believed that they could conquer poverty, confront racism, establish civic order, and expand the economy. At a time when liberalism seemed to ... Read more
In the 1960s and 1970s, New Orleans experienced one of the greatest transformations in its history. Its people replaced Jim Crow, fought a War on Poverty, and emerged with glittering skyscrapers, professional football, and a building so large it had to be called the Superdome. ""New Orleans after the Promises"" looks back at that era to explore how a few thousand locals tried to bring the Great Society to Dixie. With faith in God and American progress, they believed that they could conquer poverty, confront racism, establish civic order, and expand the economy. At a time when liberalism seemed to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820329000
SKU
V9780820329000
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Ref
99-12
About Kent Germany
Kent Germany, a Louisiana native and former resident of New Orleans, is an assistant professor and deputy director of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. He is coeditor of two books about Lyndon Johnson and the 1960s: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power and Toward the Great Society.
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