The Politics of Poverty Author:John C. Donovan In THE POLITICS OF POVERTY, John C. Donovan analyzes the first political program to bear the distinctive LBJ brand: The War on Poverty. — The "War on Poverty" is the label generally given to the omnibus bill that created the Office of Economic Opportunity, and included a group of youth programs and unprecedented urban and rural community action p... more »rograms providing a direct financial relationship between the community-including the neighborhood-and the federal government.
Now, less than three years later, the same president who won the nation's highest office in his own right in a monumental landslide vote and carried with him an overwhelming majority of his own party into both Houses of Congress, finds his War on Poverty in serious legislative, administrative and political difficulty« less