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Author: Christopher P. Loss
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ISBN: 0691148279

Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)

This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Download Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state. Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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