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- catalog abstract ""In the mid-1960s, President Lyndon Johnson launched an unprecedented political crusade to eradicate poverty in America - an unconditional "War on Poverty" that transcended Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal agenda. Set into motion with the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), a federal agency established after the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, this bold crusade aimed to break the cycle of a culture of poverty by attacking its causes in urban ghettos and depressed rural areas. The War on Poverty formulated and administered an array of novel programs, including the Community Action Program, the Job Corps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Project Head Start, and the Legal Services Program. Despite criticism by political opponents, despite budgetary restraints, and despite the failure to achieve the lofty goal of ridding the nation of poverty, most of the social programs established under OEO still exist today." "Launching the War on Poverty - the first single-volume oral history of this momentous federal plan to help society's least fortunate - brings the antipoverty crusade to life through the testimony of its creators. The author, Michael Gillette, has compiled interviews with forty-eight "poverty warriors" from the 1,700 oral history interviews in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. These brave planners were an assorted lot of borrowed government officials, business professionals, academics, experts on poverty, and freelance kibitzers, from the nation's top law schools and graduate programs. Their narratives focus on federal policies and the political climate of the 1960s, and document how policymakers perceived the problem of poverty and its possible solutions. Today, the welfare programs of the Great Society are criticized as a failure of liberal idealism; but these firsthand testimonies demonstrate that the strategies of the original poverty warriors were rooted in the American work ethic and were designed to encourage self-help instead of dependence."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10045036.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1963-1969.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social policy.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""In the mid-1960s, President Lyndon Johnson launched an unprecedented political crusade to eradicate poverty in America - an unconditional "War on Poverty" that transcended Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal agenda. Set into motion with the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), a federal agency established after the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, this bold crusade aimed to break the cycle of a culture of poverty by attacking its causes in urban ghettos and depressed rural areas. The War on Poverty formulated and administered an array of novel programs, including the Community Action Program, the Job Corps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Project Head Start, and the Legal Services Program. ".
- catalog description "Camelot confronts the culture of poverty. -- The war on poverty task force. -- Creating the Community Action Program. -- Employment versus poverty. -- Rural programs. -- The enactment of poverty legislation. -- The Office of Economic Opportunity: "The most action in town". -- The Job Corps. -- The Community Action Program. -- An early success: Project Head Start. -- Advocates for the poor: VISTA and the Legal Services Program. -- Delegated programs. -- Challenges to Head Start. -- The Job Corps under siege. -- "Keeping the trash in one pile" : Legislative battles. -- OEO's struggle to endure. -- Assessments.".
- catalog description "Despite criticism by political opponents, despite budgetary restraints, and despite the failure to achieve the lofty goal of ridding the nation of poverty, most of the social programs established under OEO still exist today." "Launching the War on Poverty - the first single-volume oral history of this momentous federal plan to help society's least fortunate - brings the antipoverty crusade to life through the testimony of its creators. The author, Michael Gillette, has compiled interviews with forty-eight "poverty warriors" from the 1,700 oral history interviews in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. These brave planners were an assorted lot of borrowed government officials, business professionals, academics, experts on poverty, and freelance kibitzers, from the nation's top law schools and graduate programs. Their narratives focus on federal policies and the political climate of the 1960s, and document how policymakers perceived the problem of poverty and its possible solutions. ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Today, the welfare programs of the Great Society are criticized as a failure of liberal idealism; but these firsthand testimonies demonstrate that the strategies of the original poverty warriors were rooted in the American work ethic and were designed to encourage self-help instead of dependence."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xx, 409 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Launching the war on poverty.".
- catalog identifier "0805791043 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Launching the war on poverty.".
- catalog isPartOf "Twayne's oral history series ; no. 23".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International,".
- catalog relation "Launching the war on poverty.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1963-1969.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social policy.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "362.5/8/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Economic assistance, Domestic United States.".
- catalog subject "HC110.P63 G54 1996".
- catalog subject "Politicians United States Interviews.".
- catalog subject "Poverty United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Camelot confronts the culture of poverty. -- The war on poverty task force. -- Creating the Community Action Program. -- Employment versus poverty. -- Rural programs. -- The enactment of poverty legislation. -- The Office of Economic Opportunity: "The most action in town". -- The Job Corps. -- The Community Action Program. -- An early success: Project Head Start. -- Advocates for the poor: VISTA and the Legal Services Program. -- Delegated programs. -- Challenges to Head Start. -- The Job Corps under siege. -- "Keeping the trash in one pile" : Legislative battles. -- OEO's struggle to endure. -- Assessments.".
- catalog title "Launching the war on poverty : an oral history / Michael L. Gillette.".
- catalog type "Interviews. fast".
- catalog type "text".