LEADER 03910nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910792465603321 005 20230725023146.0 010 $a1-282-53157-3 010 $a9786612531576 010 $a1-4008-3468-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400834686 035 $a(CKB)2670000000009440 035 $a(EBL)485764 035 $a(OCoLC)647880010 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344462 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11275598 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344462 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10308351 035 $a(PQKB)11182679 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC485764 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43090 035 $a(DE-B1597)453712 035 $a(OCoLC)979577260 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400834686 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL485764 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10367253 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253157 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000009440 100 $a20090716d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWho cares?$b[electronic resource] $epublic ambivalence and government activism from the New Deal to the second gilded age /$fKatherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13563-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Devoted to the Common Good? --$t1. Dissent and the New Deal --$t2. Warring over the War on Poverty --$t3. Economic Anxiety in the New Gilded Age --$t4. Searching for "the Better Angels of Our Nature" --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAmericans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and letters to presidents from average citizens. This evidence, some of it little known, reveals a much darker, more impatient attitude toward the poor, the unemployed, and the dispossessed during the 1930's and 1960's. Katherine Newman and Elisabeth Jacobs show that some of the social policies that Americans take for granted today suffered from declining public support just a few years after their inception. Yet Americans have been equally unenthusiastic about efforts to dismantle social programs once they are well established. Again contrary to popular belief, conservative Republicans had little public support in the 1980's and 1990's for their efforts to unravel the progressive heritage of the New Deal and the Great Society. Whether creating or rolling back such programs, leaders like Roosevelt, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan often found themselves working against public opposition, and they left lasting legacies only by persevering despite it. Timely and surprising, Who Cares? demonstrates not that Americans are callous but that they are frequently ambivalent about public support for the poor. It also suggests that presidential leadership requires bold action, regardless of opinion polls. 606 $aEconomics$zUnited States$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic policy$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 615 0$aEconomics 676 $a338.973 700 $aNewman$b Katherine S.$f1953-$0524743 701 $aJacobs$b Elisabeth S.$f1977-$01559779 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792465603321 996 $aWho cares$93825226 997 $aUNINA