President Johnson's war on poverty : rhetoric and history / David Zarefsky.

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Zarefsky, David [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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ISBN:

0585213518
9780585213514
9780817352455
0817352457
9780817389420
0817389423

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: President Johnson's war on poverty.DDC classification:

338.973 19

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HC110.P63 Z36 1986eb

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Contents:

Chronology -- Rhetoric and public policy: the force of symbolic choice -- Inception: the war is declared -- Rhetorical crisis: the transformation of the military objective -- Rhetorical crisis: the transformation of the enemy -- Rhetorical crisis: the transformation of weapons and tactics -- Consummation: the stalemated war -- The impasse of the liberal argument.

Summary: Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In January 1964, in his first State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson announced a declaration of "unconditional war" on poverty. By the end of the year the Economic Opportunity Act became law. The War on Poverty illustrates the interweaving of rhetorical and historical forces in shaping public policy. Zarefsky suggest that an important problem in the War on Poverty lay in its discourse. He assumes that language plays a central role in the formulation of social policy by shaping the context within which people view the social worl.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-266) and index.

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Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In January 1964, in his first State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson announced a declaration of "unconditional war" on poverty. By the end of the year the Economic Opportunity Act became law. The War on Poverty illustrates the interweaving of rhetorical and historical forces in shaping public policy. Zarefsky suggest that an important problem in the War on Poverty lay in its discourse. He assumes that language plays a central role in the formulation of social policy by shaping the context within which people view the social worl.

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