Promises kept : John F. Kennedy's new frontier /
A counter-revisionist examination of JFK and his administration, Promises Kept presents a policy history of major domestic legislative efforts between 1961 and 1963. Bernstein focuses on administraive and congressional progress under Kennedy in civil rights, education, taxes, unemployment, Medicare,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1993
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | A counter-revisionist examination of JFK and his administration, Promises Kept presents a policy history of major domestic legislative efforts between 1961 and 1963. Bernstein focuses on administraive and congressional progress under Kennedy in civil rights, education, taxes, unemployment, Medicare, and the Peace Corps. He persuasively argues that Kennedy was indeed a successful president, showing that many of JFK's campaign promises were well on their way to enactment by the time of his assassination, even after two years of dealings with a balky and often hostile Congress, and the difficulty. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 342 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
| ISBN: | 9780199874415 0199874417 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
