President Johnson's war on poverty : rhetoric and history /
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...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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University, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
©1986.
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| Shrnutí: | 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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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 275 pages) |
| Médium: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585213518 9780585213514 9780817352455 0817352457 9780817389420 0817389423 0817302662 9780817302665 |