The Unraveling of America
The Unraveling of America

Author: Allen J. Matusow

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 0820334057

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In a book that William E. Leuchtenburg, writing in the Atlantic, called “a work of considerable power,” Allen Matusow documents the rise and fall of 1960s liberalism. He offers deft treatments of the major topics—anticommunism, civil rights, Great Society programs, the counterculture—making the most, throughout, of his subject’s tremendous narrative potential. Matusow’s preface to the new edition explains the sometimes critical tone of his study. The Unraveling of America, he says, “was intended as a cautionary tale for liberals in the hope that when their hour struck again, they might perhaps be fortified against past error. Now that they have another chance, a look back at the 1960s might serve them well.”

Impossible Democracy
Impossible Democracy

Author: Noel A. Cazenave

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2008-06-05

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0791479722

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Honorable Mention, 2008 Gustavus Myers Book Award, presented by the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America Impossible Democracy challenges the conventional wisdom that the War on Poverty failed, by exploring the unlikely success of its community action programs. Using two projects in Manhattan that were influential precursors of community action programs—the Mobilization for Youth and the Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited-Associated Community Teams—Noel A. Cazenave analyzes national and local conflicts in the 1960s over what the nature of community action should be. Fueled by the civil rights movement, activist social scientists promoted a model of community action that allowed for the use of social protest as an instrument of local reform. In addition, they advanced a more participatory view of how democracy should work, one that insisted local decision making not be left solely to elected officials and other powerful people, as traditionally done.

Poverty in Common
Poverty in Common

Author: Alyosha Goldstein

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2012-03-23

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0822351811

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This work looks at inter-related post WWII case studies to analyze the ways in which different groups, mostly governmental agencies and emerging activist organizations, invoked the idea of "community" in anti-poverty initiatives during the late 1950s and 1960s.

Community Programs to Promote Youth Development
Community Programs to Promote Youth Development

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2002-02-12

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0309072751

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After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. But what do we know about the role of such programs for today's adolescents? How can we ensure that programs are designed to successfully meet young people's developmental needs and help them become healthy, happy, and productive adults? Community Programs to Promote Youth Development explores these questions, focusing on essential elements of adolescent well-being and healthy development. It offers recommendations for policy, practice, and research to ensure that programs are well designed to meet young people's developmental needs. The book also discusses the features of programs that can contribute to a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood. It examines what we know about the current landscape of youth development programs for America's youth, as well as how these programs are meeting their diverse needs. Recognizing the importance of adolescence as a period of transition to adulthood, Community Programs to Promote Youth Development offers authoritative guidance to policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and other key stakeholders on the role of youth development programs to promote the healthy development and well-being of the nation's youth.

Brutal Need
Brutal Need

Author: Martha F. Davis

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1995-08-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780300064247

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During the 1960s a group of lawyers - in collaboration with welfare recipient activists - mounted a legal campaign to create a constitutional right to welfare. This book tells the behind-the-scenes story of that campaign - the strategies, successes, failures and frustrations.

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 1242

ISBN-13:

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Nuclear Waste
Nuclear Waste

Author: Steve H. Murdock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-28

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0429725140

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Critical in solving the nuclear waste problem are such issues as the techniques needed to equitably select waste repository sites; the implications for economies, populations, public services, social structures, and future generations in siting areas; the best means for mitigating short- and long-term public and private impact of repositories; and the type of citizen involvement that best ensures the full participation of national, state, and local interest groups in the siting process. The contributors to this book examine these and related issues, offering the perspectives of sociology, economics, philosophy, and political science and representing the differing views of various regions of the nation.