The U.S. since 1945

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RECENT STUDIES ON THE GREAT SOCIETY AND THE WELFARE STATE

Edwin Amenta, Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy (1998).

John A. Andrew III, Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society (1999)

Mary Jo Bane and David T. Ellwood, Welfare Realities: From Rhetoric to Reform (1994)

Edward Berkowitz and Kim McQuaid, Creating the Welfare State (1980)

Irving Bernstein, Guns or Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson (1996)

Vaughan Bornet, The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson (1983)

Anne Marie Cammisa, From Rhetoric to Reform?: Welfare Policy in American Politics (1998)

Joseph A. Callifano, The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson (1991)

Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (1982)

____________, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent (1990)

Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising (1991)

Sheldon H. Danziger et al. (eds.), Confronting Poverty: Prescriptions for Change (1994)

Gareth Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism (1996)

William M. Epstein, Welfare in America: How Social Science Fails the Poor (1996)

Herbert J. Gans, The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy (1995)

Leon Ginzberg, Conservative Social Welfare Policy (1998)

Joel F. Handler, The Poverty of Welfare Reform (1995)

Christopher Jencks, Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass (1992)

Michael B. Katz., Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, The "Underclass, " and Urban Schools as History (1995)

Robert C. Lieberman, Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State (1998)

Gwendolyn Mink, Welfare's End (1998)

Charles Noble, Welfare as We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State (1997)

Donald F. Norris and Lyke Thompson (eds.), The Politics of Welfare Reform (1995)

Paul Pierson, Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment (1994)

Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, The Breaking of the American Social Compact (1997)

Francis Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Regulating the Poor, 2nd ed. (1993)

Valerie Polakow, Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America (1994)

Jill Quadagno, The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty (1994)

Sanford F. Schram, Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty (1995)

Theda Skocpol, Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective (1995)

Theda Skocpol and Stanley B. Greenberg(eds), The New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics (1997)

Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado, No Mercy: How Conservative Think

Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda (1996)

Michael Tanner, The End of Welfare: Fighting Poverty in the Civil Society (1996)

Margaret Wier, Politics and Jobs (1992)

Margaret Wier (ed.), The Social Divide: Political Parties and the Future of Activist Government (1998)

William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (1996)