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Mass appeal : the formative age of the movies, radio, and tv
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ISBN: 9780521717779 9780521889087 9780511781735 9780511932755 0511932758 0511781733 0521889081 0521717779 0511852606 1107211859 1282908278 9786612908279 0511931417 0511927568 0511925026 0511930070 9780511852602 9781107211858 9781282908277 6612908270 9780511931413 9780511927560 9780511925023 9780511930072 Year: 2010 Volume: *1 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Mass Appeal describes the changing world of American popular culture from the first sound movies through the age of television. In short vignettes, the book reveals the career patterns of people who became big movie, TV, or radio stars. Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson symbolize the early stars of sound movies. Groucho Marx and Fred Astaire represent the movie stars of the 1930s, and Jack Benny stands in for the 1930s performers who achieved their success on radio. Katharine Hepburn, a stage and film star, illustrates the cultural trends of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Humphrey Bogart and Bob Hope serve as examples of performers who achieved great success during the Second World War. Walt Disney, Woody Allen, and Lucille Ball, among others, become the representative figures of the postwar world. Through these vignettes, the reader comes to understand the development of American mass media in the twentieth century.

To improve human health : a history of the Institute of Medicine
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ISBN: 0309061881 9786610210602 1280210605 0309592283 0585006830 9780585006833 9780309061889 0309173353 Year: 1998 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,

Something happened : a political and cultural overview of the seventies
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ISBN: 1281890073 9786613792457 0231500513 9780231500517 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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Making social welfare policy in America : three case studies since 1950
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ISBN: 022669223X 022669206X 9780226692067 9780226692234 Year: 2020 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press,

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"This is a study of the development of the American social welfare system during the postwar period through the end of the 20th century. Edward Berkowitz focuses on three case studies, the development of disability insurance in the mid-1950's, the passage of Medicare in 1965, and the welfare reform legislation of 1996, to explore the politics of welfare programs, and the relationship between experts, interest groups, political parties, and the ambitions of political leaders in the development of and resistance to an expanded national role in providing welfare. Issues raised and choices made at the time of the creation of programs like disability insurance continue to shape existing programs and debates about welfare reform decades later as reflected in his third case, the 1996 welfare reform legislation"--

America's welfare state : from Roosevelt to Reagan
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ISBN: 0801841283 Year: 1991 Publisher: Baltimore London Johns Hopkins University Press

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Mass appeal : the formative age of the movies, radio, and tv
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ISBN: 9780511781735 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The other welfare : supplemental security income's role in America's social policy
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ISBN: 0801467330 9780801467332 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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The Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon's daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in 1972, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) marked the culmination of liberal social and economic policies that began during the New Deal. The new program provided cash benefits to needy elderly, blind, and disabled individuals. Because of the complex character of SSI-marking both the high tide of the Great Society and the beginning of the retrenchment of the welfare state-it provides the perfect subject for assessing the development of the American state in the late twentieth century.SSI was launched with the hope of freeing welfare programs from social and political stigma; it instead became a source of controversy almost from its very start. Intended as a program that paid uniform benefits across the nation, it ended up replicating many of the state-by-state differences that characterized the American welfare state. Begun as a program intended to provide income for the elderly, SSI evolved into a program that served people with disabilities, becoming a primary source of financial aid for the de-institutionalized mentally ill and a principal support for children with disabilities.Written by a leading historian of America's welfare state and the former chief historian of the Social Security Administration, The Other Welfare illuminates the course of modern social policy. Using documents previously unavailable to researchers, the authors delve into SSI's transformation from the idealistic intentions of its founders to the realities of its performance in America's highly splintered political system. In telling this important and overlooked history, this book alters the conventional wisdom about the development of American social welfare policy.


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Creating the welfare state: the political economy of twentieth-century reform
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Year: 1980 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Praeger,

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The medical follow-up agency : the first fifty years, 1946-1996
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ISBN: 0309064406 9786610210282 1280210281 0309596955 0585009104 9780585009100 9780309064408 0309184150 9780309184151 9781280210280 6610210284 9780309596954 Year: 1999 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,

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