Robert Clifton Weaver and the American city : the life and times of an urban reformer / Wendell E. Pritchett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pritchett, Wendell E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weaver, Robert C. (Robert Clifton), 1907-1997.

Weaver, Robert C.

Bernard M. Baruch College.

United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Cabinet officers--United States--Biography.

Cabinet officers.

African American college presidents.

African Americans--Government policy.

History.

African Americans.

Urban policy.

United States.

New York (State).

African Americans--Biography.

United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development--Officials and employees--Biography.

Urban policy--United States--History--20th century.

African Americans--Government policy--History--20th century.

Cabinet officers--New York (State)--Biography.

African American college presidents--Biography.

Bernard M. Baruch College--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Contents:

1 Preparing the Talented Tenth: The Weaver Family and the Black Elite 8

2 Fighting for a Better Deal 31

3 A Liberal Experiment: Race and Housing in the New Deal 53

4 Creating a New Order: Black Politics in the New Deal Era 66

5 World War II and Black Labor 88

6 Chicago and the Science of Race Relations 116

7 Searching for a Place to Call Home 135

8 New York City and the Institutions of Liberal Reform 151

9 The First Cabinet Job 171

10 The Path to Power 193

11 The Kennedy Years: A Reluctant New Frontier 211

12 Fighting for Civil Rights from the Inside 233

13 The Great Society and the City 246

14 HUD, Robert Weaver, and the Ambiguities of Race 262

15 Power and Its Limitations 279

16 The Great Society, High and Low 301

17 An Elder Statesman in a Period of Turmoil 325.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-417) and index.

ISBN:

9780226684482

0226684482

OCLC:

191090250