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Nicholas Eberstadt
The Great Society at Fifty
The Triumph and the Tragedy
AEI, 2014
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Was the Great Society a triumph, a tragedy or both?
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Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, casts an ideological eye on the Great Society’s impact on American life. The Great Society set out to end discrimination against African-Americans and reduce poverty. The author regards the first effort as successful, though it rode roughshod over states’ rights. Eberstadt calls the War on Poverty a disaster, notably because programs designed to alleviate 1960s poverty continued and expanded over successive administrations. Progressives won’t care for Eberstadt’s conclusions, and his simplistic one-sidedness can be off-putting. Nonetheless, getAbstract – always politically neutral – suggests his thought-provoking conclusions to office holders, government officials, ordinary citizens interested in debating the issues, and students of history and government policy.
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About the Author
Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He writes frequently on demographics, entitlements and national security.
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