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Galveston
Looks at the forces which have shaped Galveston's history, describes the island city's geography, wildlife, and ecology, and recounts the disastrous hurricane of 1900
Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race
This is a hard-hitting analysis of the war on poverty in the United States. The book focuses on the genesis of the Economic Opportunity Act in the 1960s which constituted the core of the antipoverty crusade of President Kennedy and President Johnson.
Launching the War on Poverty
Oral histories and secretly recorded telephone conversations dramatically reveal how Lyndon Johnson's administration waged an unprecedented war against poverty in the 1960s.
Mr. Social Security
He played that role so well that he prompted Senator Paul Douglas's wry comment that "an expert on Social Security is a person who knows Wilbur Cohen's telephone number.".
Memo 1965 November 8
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A Perilous Progress
The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the "wealth of nations." It grew into a profession of immense public prestige--and now suffers a strangely withered public purpose. Michael Bernstein portrays a profession that has ended up repudiating the state that nurtured it, ignoring distributive justice, and disproportionately privileging private desires in the study of economic life. Intellectual introversion has robbed it, he contends, of the very public influence it coveted and cultivated for so long. With wit and irony he examines how a community of experts now identified with uncritical celebration of ''free market'' virtues was itself shap...
Héctor P. García
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Texas, a Modern History
David G. McComb, professor of history at Colorado State University, is author of Houston: A History and Galveston: A History, also published by the University of Texas Press. McComb grew up in Houston and has lived in Dallas, San Antonio, Galveston, and Austin. He is a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association.
Governing the White House
Charles Walcott and Karen Hult maintain that the organization of the White House influences presidential performance much more than commonly thought and that organization theory is an essential tool for understanding that influence. Their book offers the first systematic application of organizational governance theory to the structures and operations of the White House Office. Using organizational theory to analyze what at times has been a rather ad hoc and disorganized office might seem quixotic. After all, the White House Office exists within a turbulent political environment that encourages expedient decision-making. And every four to eight years it must be "reinvented" by presidents who ...
