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SEGMENTS
(abbreviated titles)

 1900-1930
       
  Closing of the Frontier
  Scientific Racism
  The Children's Bureau
  Middletown
  Recent Social Trends

  1930-1960
       
  The Great Depression
  The Gallup Poll
  World War II
  Suburban Nation
  Sexual Behavior

  1960-2000
       
  The Feminine Mystique
  The Moynihan Report
  Broken Windows
  Stagflation/Deregulation
  Middletown IV
  Census 2000

   

 

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"The Moynihan  Report"
When Politics and Sociology Collide


Daniel Patrick 
Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Interview
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan is a Senator from New York from 1977 to 2001. He was a member of the Cabinet or sub-Cabinet of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. He was Ambassador to India from 1973 to 1975 and a U.S. Representative to the United Nations, 1975 to 1976. He is a former Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and Wesleyan University. 

He is the author of The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (“The Moynihan Report”); Counting our Blessings; Family and Nation; On the Law of Nations; Secrecy: A Brief Account of the American Experience; and Toward a National Urban Policy, and other works.


James Q. Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is Chairman, Board of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He is a past president of the American Political Science Association. He chaired the White House Task Force on Crime in 1966 and the National Advisory Commission of Drug Abuse Prevention in 1972-73. 

He is the author of Thinking About Crime; Varieties of Police Behavior; Crime and Human Nature; and The Moral Sense. He is a co-author of Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in our Communities.

James Q. Wilson

James Q. Wilson
Interview
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Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama
Interview
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Francis Fukuyama is Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. 

He is the author of The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of the Social Order; The End of History and the Last Man; and Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity.


   
   
   
   
 
   
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