Housing and the Democratic Ideal
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 023111950X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 350 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Customer said Song of the Unsung. First, let the record reflect that Professor Henderson is a beautiful writer. This biography of a quietly insistent policymaker is painstakingly researched; more importantly, it's thoughtfully analyzed in a way that makes the New Deal relevant to today's issues.. John Ellis said The biography of Charles Abrams, the father of public housing. A serious highly informative, well researched and documented book, but not as lively as its subject was (I studied under Abrams), and the book gets unclear and hard to follow in the "The biography of Charles Abrams, the father of public housing" according to John Ellis. A serious highly informative, well researched and documented book, but not as lively as its subject was (I studied under Abrams), and the book gets unclear and hard to follow in the 2nd half.. nd half.
Edward Orser, Urban History"Scott Henderson's masterful study effectively places Abrams' manifesto on race and housing in the context of an enormously creative, varied, committed and influential career centred on critical issues in American housing policy." -- W. "Scott Henderson's masterful study effectively places Abrams' manifesto on race and housing in the context of an enormously creative, varied, committed and influential career centred on critical issues in American housing policy." -- W. Edward Orser, "Urban History""Scott Henderson's masterful study effectively places Abrams' manifesto on race and housing in the context of an enormously creative, varied, committed and influential career centred on critical issues in American housing policy." -- W.
As a "public intellectual," Abrams's voice reached the American public through the pages of The Nation, The New Leader, and The New York Times, with accessible explanations of civil rights legislation, mortgage financing, government policies, and urban renewal. Though structured as a narrative biography, this book also uses Abrams's experiences as a lens through which we can better understand the development of American social policy and state expansion during the twentieth century. He uniquely combined in one person the often divergent roles of "public" and "policy" intellectual. Charles Abrams (1902-1970) stood at the center of the policies, problems, and politics surrounding urban planning, housing reform, and the public and private interests involved in the expansion of the American state. Scott Henderson not only provides clear insight into Abrams's role in American policymaking and his individual achievements as a pioneering civil rights lawyer, scholar, and urban reformer, but also offers an in-depth analysis of modern state-building and the government-private sector relations ushered in by the New Deal.. His growing concern over racial discrimination prefigured its emergence as a highly contested aspect of the American state.A. In his left-leaning critique of centrist liberalism, Abrams took aim at the use of fiscal and monetary policies to achieve social objectivesa practic