Looking Back at the Great Society, with Amity Shlaes
More than 50 years after Lyndon Johnson launched the \u201cGreat Society\u201d and its \u201cwar on poverty\u201d that its architects said would eliminate all poverty in America in ten years, we still have poverty and a legacy of failed experiments in social engineering (Model Cities, anyone?) Author Amity Shlaes is out this week with her latest book, Great Society: A New History, that gives us a fine-grained look... Source