| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security. By Edwin Amenta. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. x, 322 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-12473-5.)

When hundreds of histories of social security line the shelves, it is surprising that the last major study of the Townsend movement was published more than forty years ago. In When Movements Matter, the sociologist Edwin Amenta aims not only to update our knowledge and understanding of Francis Townsend's plan to end the depression by paying old-age revolving pensions, but also to contribute to theories about why social movements are sometimes influential and sometimes not.

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