Fighting Poverty: From LBJ to Obama - Kennedy Library Forums
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/07/18
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On February 26, 2015, Mark Shriver, son of Sargent Shriver; Princeton Professor Julian Zelizer, author of the recently published The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society; Melissa Boteach, Vice President of Half in Ten and the Poverty and Prosperity Program at American Progress; and New Yorker writer Nicholas Lemann discussed the legacy of the War on Poverty programs with Scott Stossel, editor of The Atlantic.
