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Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City
Wendell E. Pritchett
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Paperback. Tracing Robert Clifton Weaver's career through the creation, expansion, and contraction of New Deal liberalism, this book illuminates his instrumental role in the birth of almost every urban initiative of the period, from public housing and urban renewal to affirmative action and rent control. Num Pages: 444 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFSL3; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 626.
From his role as Franklin Roosevelt's "negro advisor" to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advocates of the twentieth century. This volume, the first biography of the first African American to hold a cabinet position in the federal government, rescues from obscurity the story of a man whose legacy continues to affect American race relations and the cities in which they largely play out. Tracing Weaver's career through the creation, expansion, and contraction of New Deal liberalism, ... Read more
From his role as Franklin Roosevelt's "negro advisor" to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advocates of the twentieth century. This volume, the first biography of the first African American to hold a cabinet position in the federal government, rescues from obscurity the story of a man whose legacy continues to affect American race relations and the cities in which they largely play out. Tracing Weaver's career through the creation, expansion, and contraction of New Deal liberalism, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
444
Condition
New
Number of Pages
444
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226214016
SKU
V9780226214016
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About Wendell E. Pritchett
Wendell E. Pritchett is chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden. He is the author of Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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