REINTERPRETING THE ORIGINS OF THE WAR ON POVERTY

Michael Woodsworth, Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 2016) (From the book jacket: "Half a century after the launch of the War on Poverty, its complex origins remain obscure. Battle for Bed-Stuy reinterprets President Lyndon Johnson's much-debated crusade form the perspective of its foot soldiers in New York City, showing how 1960s antipoverty programs were rooted in a rich local tradition of grassroots activism and policy experiments.).