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Book Review


The Birth of Head Start: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. By Maris A. Vinovskis. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii, 205 pp. $29.00, ISBN 0-226-85671-2.)
Head Start is arguably the most popular and enduring legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson's (LBJ's) War on Poverty. As Maris A. Vinovskis points out in his new book, however, neither LBJ nor Sargent Shriver, Johnson's choice to head the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), paid much attention to early childhood education when they first began planning the administration's antipoverty program. Not until after the Economic Opportunity Act had been passed did this idea move to the center of their thinking, leading to the creation of Head Start. . . .
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