Title Great society : a new history / Amity Shlaes.

Publication Info.

New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	973.92 SHLAES	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction	973.923 SHLAES	Check Shelf
Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction	973.923 SHLAES	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	x, 511 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-486) and index.
Summary	Shlaes offers a companion to her history of the 1930s, The Forgotten Man, and shows that in fact there was scant difference between two presidents we consider opposites: Johnson and Nixon. At once history and biography, Great Society sketches moving portraits of the characters in this transformative period, from U.S. Presidents to the visionary UAW leader Walter Reuther, the founders of Intel, and Federal Reserve chairmen William McChesney Martin and Arthur Burns. Great Society casts new light on other figures too, from Ronald Reagan, then governor of California, to the socialist Michael Harrington and the protest movement leader Tom Hayden.
Subject	Nineteen sixties.
	United States -- History -- 1961-1969.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.
	United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
	United States -- Economic policy -- 1961-1971.
	United States -- Social policy.
	Economic policy. (OCoLC)fst00902025
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Nineteen sixties. (OCoLC)fst01037817
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Social policy. (OCoLC)fst01122738
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1945-1980
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780061706424 (hardcover)
	0061706426 (hardcover)

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