TY - BOOK AU - Conn,Steven ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - To promote the general welfare: the case for big government AV - HN57 .T68 2012 U1 - 361.973 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Oxford University Press KW - United States KW - Social policy KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Politics and government KW - 21st century KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=998942 ER -