| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131.2

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Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880–1939. By S. J. Kleinberg. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xiv, 230 pp. Tables, notes, index. $35.)

Public welfare advocates in the 1930s were delighted at the prospect of federal social policies that would help diminish the dramatic differences in how states and communities cared for the poor. S. J. Kleinberg's examination of public and charitable policies toward widows and orphans at the turn of the century in three cities (Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Fall River, Massachusetts) demonstrates why such concern was manifest on the eve of the New Deal.

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