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The Republican Party and the War on Poverty
1964–1981
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Mark Mclay
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English
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2021
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Mark Maclay examines the part the Republican Party played in shaping and eventually curtailing President Johnson’s War on Poverty. Republican politicians and presidents consistently influenced how the ‘war’ was fought, before President Reagan symbolically ended the effort with his social welfare cuts in 1981. Drawing on original archives of Republican politicians across the United States, the author sheds light on the important dynamic that existed between the Republican Party, Congress and the White House throughout those years, and provides a fresh perspective on the GOP and their presidents during a period that witnessed its rise from its nadir in 1964 to becoming the ascendant force in US politics.
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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List of abbreviations
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Introduction
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1. A familiar trap: the ‘Party of Privilege’ and the War on Poverty, 1964
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2. A path to relevance: the Republican crusade against the War on Poverty, 1965 –66
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3. Order or justice? Republicans and the ‘urban crisis’, 1966–67
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4. The choice and the echo: poverty politics and the 1968 campaign
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5. The crossroads: Nixon’s early years, 1969–70
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6. The conservative turn: Nixon, Ford, and the beginning of the end, 1971–76
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7. The end? Poverty politics and the ‘Reagan Revolution’, 1977 –81
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Epilogue: Poverty won? Republicans and poverty, 1982–2018
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Bibliography
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Index
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Keywords for this book
Politics
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
