Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures Harvard University [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

Verlag: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, California, 1986

Beschreibung

Fine condition blue cloth boards with a navy blue cloth spine and bright gold spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Books by Daniel Patrick Moynihan; Dedicaton; Foreword by Daniel Patrick Moynihan dated May 26, 1985; Notes; and Index. An ink stamp is evident at a bit of the upper page edges (see photographs). The pages are otherwise in fine condition and the spine is exceedingly tight and square. "The American family is under siege. Nowhere is that fact more boldly asserted than in this courageous and important book. Here, one of our country's most distinguished public servants revives an issue that should have concerned us profoundly twenty years ago: the disintegraton of the American family. Senator Moynihan's discussion is searing in its clarity, his facts disturbing in their significance. If the family suffers, the young suffer. Fully one out of four of this nation's preschool children is living in poverty. Within ten years, the majority of seventeen-year-olds will come from broken homes. More than half of all births to teen mothers are out of wedlock - and the rates are increasing annually. Finally, and more deeply disturbing, the U.S. government is adding insult to injury by taxing families whose income is well below the poverty line. Hailing the Harvard Godkin Lectures, at which Moynihan initially presented his views, the New York Times editorialized: "In an act of intellectual and political leadership he invites Americans of all persuasions to address the afflictions of the family." The issues need to be aired, a national policy needs to be established. "That," said the Times, "is Senator Moynihan's message and it deserves to be heard right and left, far and wide." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004106

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures ...

Verlag: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, California

Erscheinungsdatum: 1986

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition