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Great Society: A New History

By : Amity Shlaes

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Book Synopsis :

The author of the New York Times bestsellers The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a provocative and conversation-changing look at President Lyndon B. Johnson?s Great Society and how its failures reverberate to this day.In The Great Society, Amity Shlaes argues that just as Franklin Delano Roosevelt?s New Deal overshadowed a generation of forgotten men, Lyndon B. Johnson?s Great Society gave rise to a silent majority, a coterie of dispossessed citizens?made famous by Richard Nixon and celebrated by Donald Trump?who rejected what they saw as the federal government?s overreach. Drawing on her classic economic expertise and deep historical knowledge, Shlaes challenges the traditional narrative of 1960s America and Johnson?s experiment, recasting the story of the Great Society as a tale of hubris that remains consequential for America fifty years later.Contemporary Americans share many of the concerns that bedeviled Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and their voters. Racial differences,

Book Detail :

Author : Amity Shlaes

Pages : 528 pages

Publisher : Harper; Harper Collins Publications

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0061706426

ISBN-13 : 9780061706424

 

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