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A People's War on Poverty: Urban Politics and Grassroots Activists in Houston
Wesley G. Phelps
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 558.
In A People’s War on Poverty, Wesley G. Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. He argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy and the rights of citizenship that historians have largely overlooked. In Houston in particular, the War on Poverty spawned fierce political battles that revealed fundamental disagreements over what democracy meant, how far it should extend, and who should benefit from it. Many of the programme’s implementers took seriously the ... Read more
In A People’s War on Poverty, Wesley G. Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. He argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy and the rights of citizenship that historians have largely overlooked. In Houston in particular, the War on Poverty spawned fierce political battles that revealed fundamental disagreements over what democracy meant, how far it should extend, and who should benefit from it. Many of the programme’s implementers took seriously the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820346700
SKU
V9780820346700
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About Wesley G. Phelps
Wesley G. Phelps is assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University.
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