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Government Project tells the story of an attempt by theUS government to remake the lives of some of its citizens by establishing a cooperativefarm in Pinal County, Arizona, in 1937. These individuals were among the mostdesperately poor and disadvantaged in the nation. Casa Grande Valley Farms was an elaborate venture that providedthe Americans who volunteered to settle there with housing, work, and theopportunity to earn income. For five years...

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Excerpt from Government and Housing in Metropolitan AreasIt is important to remember, however, that Federal policies which reduce risk in home building have not been adopted simply because housing has extraordinarily persuasive spokes men. Inducements to the construction industry and to the manufacturers of materials have become traditional compensa tory measures when the economy slumps.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of ...

Excerpt from Government and Housing in Metropolitan AreasIt is important to remember, however, that Federal policies which reduce risk in home building have not been adopted simply because housing has extraordinarily persuasive spokes men. Inducements to the construction industry and to the manufacturers of materials have become traditional compensa tory measures when the economy slumps.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of ...

In government, influence denotes one's ability to get others to act, think, or feel as one intends

In this major study, Paul Hollander seeks to understand why so many distinguished Western intellectuals of the 20th century admired the various communist systems, o ften in their most repressive historical phases.

Le tesi elaborate in questo libro ormai classico non hanno mai smesso di suscitare interesse, ben oltre i confini dell'accademia. L'espressione "familismo amorale", coniata da Banfield per spiegare l'arretratezza, o meglio la mancanza di reazione all'arretratezza, di Montegrano (dietro cui si nasconde Chiaromonte, in Basilicata, alla metà degli anni '50), è diventata di uso corrente per etichettare una molteplicità di fenomeni, ma soprattutto ...

Most of the essays in this volume have appeared in scholarly journals or in books edited by others. A few are published here for the first time. None has been taken from one of my books. A would-be reader would have to go to much trouble to find them, that is the reason for bringing them together. Collections of essays are frequently miscellanies. This one is not. Except for the final two chapters, all deal with some aspect of the American pol...