An antidote to Tea Party anger, this book examines ten aspects of American life - from education to communication, from housing to health - and demonstrates, in engaging well-written essays by some of the nation's foremost scholars, that the federal government plays a central role in making our society function, and it always has.
An antidote to Tea Party anger, this book examines ten aspects of American life - from education to communication, from housing to health - and demonstrates, in engaging well-written essays by some of the nation's foremost scholars, that the federal government plays a central role in making our society function, and it always has.
Steven Conn is Professor and Director of Public History at Ohio State University. His books include Do Museums Still Need Objects?, Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past, and History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century. He is the founding editor of the online magazine Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective.
Inhaltsangabe
* Chapter 1: Looking for Government in All the Wrong Places * Brian Balogh * Chapter 2: From Franklin to Facebook: The Civic Mandate for American Communications * Richard R. John * Chapter 3: "Roads Will Everywhere Be Shortened": Transportation and the Uniting of the Nation * Zachary M. Schrag * Chapter 4: Banking on Government: The Federal Role in Credit, Finance and Banking * Michael S. Barr * Chapter 5: One Third of a Nation: Big Government and the Search for Security * Kevin Boyle * Chapter 6: How the Federal Government Built the American Dream * Thomas J. Sugrue * Chapter 7: From Hook Worm to HIV: Solving the Nation's Number One Health Problem(s) * Karen Kruse Thomas * Chapter 8: Uncle Sam at the Blackboard: The Federal Government and American Education * Jon Zimmerman * Chapter 9: Art and Culture in the Public Interest * Steven Conn * Chapter 10: Government's Greatest Hits in Peril * Paul C. Light
* Chapter 1: Looking for Government in All the Wrong Places * Brian Balogh * Chapter 2: From Franklin to Facebook: The Civic Mandate for American Communications * Richard R. John * Chapter 3: "Roads Will Everywhere Be Shortened": Transportation and the Uniting of the Nation * Zachary M. Schrag * Chapter 4: Banking on Government: The Federal Role in Credit, Finance and Banking * Michael S. Barr * Chapter 5: One Third of a Nation: Big Government and the Search for Security * Kevin Boyle * Chapter 6: How the Federal Government Built the American Dream * Thomas J. Sugrue * Chapter 7: From Hook Worm to HIV: Solving the Nation's Number One Health Problem(s) * Karen Kruse Thomas * Chapter 8: Uncle Sam at the Blackboard: The Federal Government and American Education * Jon Zimmerman * Chapter 9: Art and Culture in the Public Interest * Steven Conn * Chapter 10: Government's Greatest Hits in Peril * Paul C. Light
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