How States Shaped Postwar America

How States Shaped Postwar America
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9780226498317
ISBN-13 : 022649831X
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Book Synopsis How States Shaped Postwar America by : Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Download or read book How States Shaped Postwar America written by Nicholas Dagen Bloom and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas: urban planning and redevelopment, mass transit and highways, higher education, subsidized housing, and the environment. Bloom centers his story on the example set by New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose aggressive initiatives on the pressing issues in that period inspired others and led to the establishment of long-lived state polices in an age of decreasing federal power. Metropolitan areas, for both better and worse, changed and operated differently because of sustained state action—How States Shaped Postwar America uncovers the scope of this largely untold story.


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