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President of the other America : Robert Kennedy and the politics of poverty /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmitt, Edward R., 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Kennedy, Robert F., > 1925-1968.
Presidents > United States > Election > 1968.
Poverty > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1969-1974.
United States > Social policy > 20th century.
United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • From the New Deal to the new frontier : postwar prosperity, poverty, and the Kennedys
  • At the fulcrum of the movement : deciding time
  • Poverty and justice : defining a federal role
  • Troubles and trials : from Dallas to Watts
  • The education of a senator : seeking a "greater society"
  • "Born in a storm" : the Bedford-Stuyvesant experiment
  • "It became his issue" : fighting for the war on poverty
  • "You can't deny these people the presidency" : the 1968 campaign.