The Republican Party and the war on poverty : 1964-1981 / Mark Mclay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLay, Mark, author.

Series:

New perspectives on the American presidency.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

New perspectives on the American presidency

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.

Poverty.

Economic assistance, Domestic--United States--History--20th century.

Economic assistance, Domestic.

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History--20th century.

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Mark Maclay examines the part the Republican Party played in shaping and eventually curtailing President Johnson's War on Poverty. He shows how Republican politicians and presidents consistently influenced how the 'war' was fought, before President Reagan symbolically ended the effort with his social welfare cuts in 1981.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1. A familiar trap: the ‘Party of Privilege’ and the War on Poverty, 1964

2. A path to relevance: the Republican crusade against the War on Poverty, 1965 –66

3. Order or justice? Republicans and the ‘urban crisis’, 1966–67

4. The choice and the echo: poverty politics and the 1968 campaign

5. The crossroads: Nixon’s early years, 1969–70

6. The conservative turn: Nixon, Ford, and the beginning of the end, 1971–76

7. The end? Poverty politics and the ‘Reagan Revolution’, 1977 –81

Epilogue: Poverty won? Republicans and poverty, 1982–2018

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-7555-8

1-3995-0212-3

1-4744-7554-X

OCLC:

1252422860