Eisenhower and Social Security: The Origins of the Disability Program

by Dominick Pratico

Overview

A clear and concise history of the Social Security disability program. This book chronicles how competing ideologies coalesced into the program we have today. Detailed is how the personalities of the leading politicians of the day, including FDR, Eisenhower, Paul Douglas and Walter George, influenced this landmark piece of legislation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469704678
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/03/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	155 KB

Table of Contents

	Forward	ix
Chapter 1	The Social Security Act of 1935	1
Chapter 2	Eisenhower's Initial Success	21
Chapter 3	Paul Douglas and the Revenge of Walter George	58
Chapter 4	Congress Takes Control	87
	Conclusions	102
	Bibliography	109