To promote the general welfare  the case for big government /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Steven Conn. 
 - New York, N.Y. :  Oxford University Press,  c2012. 
 - xvii, 233 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Looking for government in all the wrong places / Brian Balogh -- Transportation and the uniting of the nation / Zachary M. Schrag -- Uncle Sam at the blackboard : the federal government and American education / Jonathan Zimmerman -- Banking on government / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer -- Helmets : government power and the promise for security / Kevin Boyle -- The right to a decent home / Thomas J. Sugrue -- Solving the nation's number one health problem(s) / Karen Kruse Thomas -- Culture for the people : how government has fostered the arts and culture / Steven Conn -- From Franklin to Facebook : the civic mandate for American communications / Richard R. John -- From endeavor to achievement and back again : government's greatest hits in peril -- Notes -- Contibutors -- Index. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199858545 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Social policy--19th century.<br/>United States--Social policy--20th century.<br/>United States--Politics and government--19th century.<br/>United States--Politics and government--20th century.<br/>United States--Politics and government--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN57  / .T68 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>361.973