| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America. By Felicia Kornbluh. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xiv, 287 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4005-4.)

Felicia Kornbluh compellingly chronicles the rise, tough and exciting times, and fall of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). "Welfare rights" included most prominently a guaranteed annual cash benefit that would provide poor people with economic security, dignity, and participation in the consumer culture of postwar American affluence, funded through the redirection of federal funds from guns to butter. Movement leaders argued that the war in Southeast Asia was not only morally indefensible as U.S. foreign policy; it also "blocked progress toward a humane domestic economy" (p. 2).

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