“He attacked planning,” James Reston had presciently said of Nixon as early as 1962, “but planned everything. ... Nixon had advanced toward Planning on several fronts because he had an open mind, and was receiving Planning advice ...
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Language: en
Pages: 376
Pages: 376
Graham here examines the beginnings and development of national growth policies and machinery in the United States from the New Deal to the Nixon administration.
Language: en
Pages: 680
Pages: 680
Thrift is a powerful and evolving moral ideal, disposition, and practice that has indelibly marked the character of American life since its earliest days. Its surprisingly multifaceted character opens a number of expansive vistas for analysis, not only in the American past, but also in its present. Thrift remains, if
Language: en
Pages: 800
Pages: 800
Nazism remains an enigma. Historians do not know whether to slot Nazism as a phenomenon of the political “right” or “left,” largely because of a misunderstanding of how central eugenics was to the regime. Eugenics, or “racial hygiene,” was at the core of National Socialism’s domestic policy, foreign policy, culture
Language: en
Pages: 207
Pages: 207
"By 1910, the forest region of the Great Lakes states was largely denuded, logged over by industrialists who coveted its timber, particularly the giant white pine. After unsuccessful attempts to farm this "cutover" region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, a group of visionaries began to dream of restoring the North
Language: en
Pages: 359
Pages: 359
This book explores the eventful but largely forgotten history of national planning efforts in the United States, first identifying and comparing five alternative approaches to contemporary national planning, then using these approaches to assess the events of 1973-1976, a period when crisis pressures brought a vigorous resurgence of national planning