News; War on Poverty: Can you tell 1962 from 2001 in quotes from books about poverty? Published: ; Jan. 11, 2015, 12:00 p.m.

History. How We Lost the War on Poverty Amity Shlaes concludes in her new book that grand governmental schemes to broadly reorder society are doomed to fail.

Books about war, poverty and the rule of law are among the finalists for Lukas Prizes given for work that combines literary excellence, deep research and social consciousness.

Harrington’s book, published just two years before President Lyndon Baines Johnson, unveiled strategies for “The War on Poverty,” became a publishing phenomenon, stirring social ...

On that first point, in a new book from the Russell Sage Foundation, Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger remind us that the full legislative agenda associated with the War on Poverty included the ...

In, “More Than Money: Five Forms of Capital to Create Wealth and Eliminate Poverty” (Stanford Business Books, 2014), Paul C. Godfrey tells his readers the recommendations from noted economists ...

Reagan’s quote remains part of the conservative rap on the War on Poverty today, during its 50th anniversary. Here’s Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, writing in the Wall Street ...

Just one serious academic book has been published this year to mark the 50th anniversary of one of America’s most innovative and productive efforts: Lyndon Johnson’s work to eradicate poverty Legacies ...