Description: To Promote the General Welfare Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Case for Big Government Author(s): Steven Conn Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc ISBN-13: 9780199858552, 978-0199858552 Synopsis Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation. But the election of Barack Obama has created a backlash rivaled only by the anti-government hysteria that preceded the Civil War. Lost in all the Tea Party rage and rhetoric is this simple fact: the federal government plays a central role in making our society function, and it always has. Edited by Steven Conn and written by some of America's leading scholars, the essays in To Promote the General Welfare explore the many ways government programs have improved the quality of life in America. The essays cover everything from education, communication, and transportation to arts and culture, housing, finance, and public health. They explore how and why government programs originated, how they have worked and changed-and been challenged-since their inception, and why many of them are important to preserve. The book shows how the WPA provided vital, in some cases career-saving, assistance to artists and writers like Jackson Pollock, Dorothea Lange, Richard Wright, John Cheever, and scores of others; how millions of students from diverse backgrounds have benefited and continue to benefit from the [url] Bill, Fulbright scholarships, and federally insured student loans; and how the federal government created an Interstate highway system unparalleled in the world, linking the entire nation. These are just a few examples of highly successful programs the book celebrates-and that anti-government critics typically ignore. For anyone wishing to explore the flip side of today's vehement attacks on American government, To Promote the General Welfare is the best place to start.
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Book Title: To Promote the General Welfare
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: To Promote the General Welfare: the Case for Big Government
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item Height: 208 mm
Subject: Government, History
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 274 g
Subject Area: Social Services
Author: Steven Conn
Item Width: 145 mm
Format: Paperback
