To promote the general welfare : the case for big government / edited by Steven Conn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conn, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

Social policy.

United States--Social policy--19th century.

United States.

United States--Social policy--20th century.

United States--Politics and government--19th century.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

United States--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

xvii, 233 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Americans Love To Hate their government, but the simple fact is that 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. Covering everything from education, communication, and transportation to arts and culture, housing, finance, and public health, this book explains how and why government programs originated, how they have worked and changed-and been challenged-and why many of them are important to preserve. Book jacket.

Contents:

Looking for government in all the wrong places / Brian Balogh

Transportation and the uniting of the nation / Zachary M. Schrag

Uncle Sam at the blackboard : the federal government and American education / Jonathan Zimmerman

Banking on government / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Twenty-nine helmets : government power and the promise of security / Kevin Boyle

The right to a decent home / Thomas J. Sugrue

Solving the nation's number one health problem(s) / Karen Kruse Thomas

Culture for the people : how government has fostered the arts and culture / Steven Conn

From Franklin to Facebook : the civic mandate for communications / Richard R. John

From endeavor to achievement and back again : government's greatest hits in peril / Paul C. Light

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199858552

0199858551

9780199858538

0199858535

OCLC:

768168279