To promote the general welfare : the case for big government / / edited by Steven Conn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820395003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY, : Oxford University Press, c2012
• ISBN: 0-19-998674-6; 1-283-84848-1; 0-19-985854-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 233 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ConnSteven
• Disciplina: 361.973
• Soggetti: Sociology & Social History; Social Sciences; Social Conditions; Electronic books.; United States Social policy 19th century; United States Social policy 20th century; United States Politics and government 19th century; United States Politics and government 20th century; United States Politics and government 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- CHAPTER 1 Looking for Government in All the Wrong Places -- CHAPTER 2 Transportation and the Uniting of the Nation -- CHAPTER 3 Uncle Sam at the Blackboard: The Federal Government and American Education -- CHAPTER 4 Banking on Government -- CHAPTER 5 Twenty-Nine Helmets: Government Power and the Promise of Security -- CHAPTER 6 The Right to a Decent Home -- CHAPTER 7 Solving the Nation's Number One Health Problem(s) -- CHAPTER 8 Culture for the People: How Government Has Fostered the Arts and Culture -- CHAPTER 9 From Franklin to Facebook: The Civic Mandate for Communications -- CHAPTER 10 From Endeavor to Achievement and Back Again: Government's Greatest Hits in Peril -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- ; D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
• Sommario/riassunto: An antidote to Tea Party anger, this book examines ten aspects of American life - from education to communication, from housing to health - and demonstrates, in engaging well-written essays by some of the nation's foremost scholars, that the federal government plays a central role in making our society function, and it always has.