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Patterson, James T. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle over Black Family Life--From LBJ to Obama.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Patterson, James T. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle over Black Family Life--From LBJ to Obama. Basic Bks: Perseus. May 2010. c.288p. ISBN 978-0-485-01357-9. $26.95. POL SCI

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then a young assistant secretary of labor, drafted an internal report, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, or the Moynihan Report, as it became known, which greatly impressed President Johnson for its bold call for action to end urban poverty. Patterson (Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore) presents a history of this controversial, now vindicated, report, which for decades informed and roiled the …

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