President of the other America : Robert Kennedy and the politics of poverty / Edward R. Schmitt
Object Details
- Author
- Schmitt, Edward R. 1970-
- Subject
- Kennedy, Robert F. 1925-1968
- Contents
- From the New Deal to the new frontier : postwar prosperity, poverty, and the Kennedys -- At the fulcrum of the movement : deciding time -- Poverty and justice : defining a federal role -- Troubles and trials : from Dallas to Watts -- The education of a senator : seeking a "greater society" -- "Born in a storm" : the Bedford-Stuyvesant experiment -- "It became his issue" : fighting for the war on poverty -- "You can't deny these people the presidency" : the 1968 campaign
- 2010
- C2010
- 20th century
- 1968
- 1960-1980
- 1969-1974
- Type
- Books
- Physical description
- ix, 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
- Place
- United States
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Poverty--History
- Presidents--Election
- Social conditions
- Social policy
- Politics and government
- Record ID
- siris_sil_985433
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
