When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security by Edwin Amenta

When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security

Edwin Amenta

322 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
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When Movements Matter accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it. The book tells the overlooked story of the Townsend Plan--a political organization that sought to alleviate poverty and end the Great Depression through a government-...

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