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- 9780395895443
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0395895448
ISBN-13
9780395895443
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1702349
Product Key Features
Book Title
Searching for America's Heart : RFK and the Renewal of Hope
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Children's Studies, History & Theory, Public Policy / Social Policy, Presidents & Heads of State, Political
Publication Year
2001
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-040804
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
362.7/8/0973
Edition Description
Teacher's edition
Table Of Content
Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Robert Kennedy: The Man Who Loved Children 25 2. Robert Kennedy's Legacy: The Inner City, Race, Jobs, and Welfare 59 3. From Kennedy to Clinton: The Two Americas Diverge Further 95 4. Enter Bill Clinton 119 5. Life After Welfare 144 6. Rekindling the Commitment: Politics and Poverty in the New Century 177 7. Breaking the Cycle: Children and Youth 206 8. Finding America's Heart 240 Index 253
Synopsis
Peter Edelman has worked as an aide to Robert F. Kennedy, a lawyer, a children's advocate, and a policymaker. He has devoted his life to the cause of justice and to ending inequality. But in 1996, while serving in the Clinton administration as an expert on welfare policy and children, he found himself in an untenable position. The president signed a new welfare bill that ended a sixty-year federal commitment to poor children, and as justification invoked the words of RFK. For Edelman, Clinton's twisting of Kennedy's vision was deeply cynical, so in a rare gesture that sparked front-page coverage in the New York Times and the Washington Post, he resigned from the administration. The nation, he believed, had been harmed. Drawing on Edelman's vast personal experience with the issues and many of the key figures, SEARCHING FOR AMERICA'S HEART shows that in an age of unprecedented prosperity, Americans have in many respects forsaken their fellow citizens. While we daily break economic records, we have largely given up our vision of social and economic justice, leaving behind a devastatingly large number of poor and near-poor, many of them children. Edelman shines a bright light on these forgotten Americans.Also, based in part on a firsthand look at community efforts across the country, he proposes a bold and practical program for addressing the difficult issues of entrenched poverty. Edelman focuses on novel ways of braiding together national and local civic activism, reinvigorating our commitment to children, and building hope in our most shattered communities. Surveying the American landscape at the beginning a new presidency and a new Congress, SEARCHING FOR AMERICA'S HEART lays the foundation for a newly conceived politics, a vision true to the legacy of Robert F. Kennedy.
LC Classification Number
HV741.E34 2001
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