| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security. By Edward D. Berkowitz. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xx, 455 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-299-18950-3.)
Who says you can't tell a book by its cover? Robert Ball peers out from the book jacket in coat and tie, seated at attention with pen in hand. He is a proud bureaucrat but also a pillar of the Social Security program. Ball was the program's leading administrator, key defender, and critical expansionary advocate for over half a century.	. . .

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