| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society. By Kent B. Germany. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xiv, 460 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2543-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2900-0.)

Lyndon Baines Johnson's War on Poverty is widely regarded as a policy and political failure. Ronald Reagan claimed that African Americans had been harmed by Johnson's War on Poverty, that it had resulted in a "new kind of bondage for millions of American citizens" (New York Times, Sept. 16, 1982, p. 1). Many liberal writers have rendered no less caustic judgments, arguing that the War on Poverty co-opted the civil rights movement and substituted pork barrel politics for real social and economic change.

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