Battle for Bed-Stuy : : The Long War on Poverty in New York City / / Michael Woodsworth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Woodsworth, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• প্রকাশনার বছর: 2016
• ভাষা: English
• দৈহিক বর্ননা: 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 24 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: The Senator and the Secretary --; 1. A Suitcase Full of Knives --; 2. Mobilizing the Forces --; 3. From the Club house to the White House --; 4. War and Rumors of War --; 5. Maximum Feasible Bureaucratization --; 6. The Power to Act --; 7. Whose Community, What Action? --; 8. From the Ground Up --; Epilogue: Gloom and Boom --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• সংক্ষিপ্ত: In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.
• বিন্যাস: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• আইসবিএন: 9780674970403; 9783110638585
• ডিওআই: 10.4159/9780674970403
• প্রবেশাধিকার: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michael Woodsworth.

In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roo...