Maximum feasible misunderstanding;: Community action in the war on poverty

by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Excellent Book

Hardcover

First published June 1, 1970

About the author

Daniel Patrick “Pat” Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times (in 1982, 1988, and 1994). He declined to run for re-election in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was the United States' ambassador to the United Nations and to India, and was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, and continuing through Gerald Ford.

Reviews

[Shawn Gude · Rating 4 out of 5]

Disagreed with some of Moynihan's conclusions, but provocative, stimulating, and ably written.