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Title To promote the general welfare [electronic resource] : the case for big government / edited by Steven Conn.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvii, 233 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Looking for government in all the wrong places / Brian Balogh -- Transportation and the uniting of the nation / Zachary M. Schrag -- Uncle Sam at the blackboard : the federal government and American education / Jonathan Zimmerman -- Banking on government / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer -- Helmets : government power and the promise for security / Kevin Boyle -- The right to a decent home / Thomas J. Sugrue -- Solving the nation's number one health problem(s) / Karen Kruse Thomas -- Culture for the people : how government has fostered the arts and culture / Steven Conn -- From Franklin to Facebook : the civic mandate for American communications / Richard R. John -- From endeavor to achievement and back again : government's greatest hits in peril -- Notes -- Contibutors -- Index.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Conn, Steven.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780199858552 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780199858538 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780199858545 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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