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Charles Abrams—influential intellectual, ardent civil rights crusader, and fierce critic of Robert Moses—was one of the twentieth century's most intriguing and engaging reformers. This life-and-times biography traces a vivid portrait of this fascinating individual. Charles Abrams (1902-1970) stood at the center of the policies, problems, and politics surrounding urban planning, housing reform, and the public and private interests involved in the expansion of the American state. He uniquely combined in one person the often divergent roles of "public" and "policy" intellectual. As a "public intellectual," Abrams's voice reached the American public through the pages of __The Nation, The New Leader,__ and __The New York Times,__ with accessible explanations of civil rights legislation, mortgage financing, government policies, and urban renewal. As a "policy intellectual," he helped to create the New York Housing Authority, lobbied President Kennedy to issue an executive order barring discrimination in federally subsidized housing projects, and combated the growing threat of a federally initiated "business welfare state." __Housing and the Democratic Ideal__ is the only comprehensive wo

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Author

A. Scott. Henderson

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231505178

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Management