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That's not what we meant to do
reform and its unintended consequences in twentieth-century America
By Gillon, Steven M.
- ISBN
- 978-0-39304-884-1
- Publisher
- New York ; W.W. Norton, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 2000
Gillon (dean of Honors Coll., Univ. of Oklahoma; The Democrats' Dilemma) takes a balanced look at the mixed record of American government activism since the New Deal. He describes the good intentions, tangled legislative history, and unexpected results of such cornerstones of the liberal regulatory state as the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill, affirmative action, an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
