Promises kept: John F. Kennedy's new frontier
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1. Verfasser: Bernstein, Irving (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1993
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Beschreibung:Includes index
A counter-revisionist examination of JFK and his administration, Promises Kept presents a policy history of major domestic legislative efforts between 1961 and 1963. Bernstein focuses on administraive and congressional progress under Kennedy in civil rights, education, taxes, unemployment, Medicare, and the Peace Corps. He persuasively argues that Kennedy was indeed a successful president, showing that many of JFK's campaign promises were well on their way to enactment by the time of his assassination, even after two years of dealings with a balky and often hostile Congress, and the difficulty
Cover; Contents; Prologue: The Presidency; 1. America in 1960; 2. Civil Rights: Confrontation; 3. Civil Rights: Year of Decision, 1963; Illustrations; 4. Keynesian Turn: The Tax Cut; 5. Wrestling with Structural Unemployment; 6. Updating the New Deal; 7. Federal Aid for Education; 8. A Battle Lost: Medicare; 9. The Peace Corps; 10. If Men Were Angels; Notes; Index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 342 pages, [32] pages of plates)
ISBN:0195046412
0195082672
0199874417
9780195046410
9780195082678
9780199874415

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