Launching the war on poverty : an oral history

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Label

Launching the war on poverty : an oral history

Title remainder

an oral history

Statement of responsibility

Michael L. Gillette

Creator

• Gillette, Michael L

Subject

• Armut
• Asistencia económica doméstica -- Estados Unidos
• Economic assistance, Domestic
• Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States
• Estados Unidos -- Política social
• Estados Unidos -- Política y gobierno -- 1963-1969
• Interviews
• Pobreza -- Estados Unidos
• Politicians
• Politicians -- United States -- Interviews
• Politics and government
• Políticos -- Estados Unidos -- Entrevistas
• Poverty
• Poverty -- United States
• Social policy
• Sozialpolitik
• USA
• United States
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969
• United States -- Social policy
• 1963-1969

Genre

• Interviews

Language

eng

Summary

Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely forgotten. Conceived amid the daring legislation of the 1960s, these programs originated as weapons in Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, an offensive spearheaded by a controversial new government agency. Within months, the Office of Economic Opportunity created an array of unconventional initiatives that empowered the poor, challenged the established order, and ultimately transformed the nation's attitudes toward poverty. In Launching the War on Poverty, historian Michael L. Gillette weaves together oral history interviews with the architects of the Great Society's boldest experiment. Forty-nine former poverty warriors, including Sargent Shriver, Adam Yarmolinsky, and Lawrence O'Brien, recount this inside story of unprecedented governmental innovation. The interviews capture the excitement and heady optimism of Americans in the 1960s along with their conflicts and disillusionment. This new edition of Launching the War on Poverty adds the voice of Lyndon Johnson to the story with excerpts from his recently released White House telephone conversations. In these colorful and brutally candid conversations, LBJ exercises his full arsenal of presidential powers, political leverage, and legendary persuasiveness to win one of his most difficult legislative battles. The second edition also documents how the OEO's offspring survived their volatile origins to become broadly supported features of domestic policy

Member of

• Oxford oral history series

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

362.5/80973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HC110.P63

LC item number

G54 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Oxford oral history series