America Before Welfare - Softcover

"A heroic and even optimistic history, a narrative of the struggles of oppressed people and their progressive allies against social injustice." -The Nation "Eloquent, exciting, inspirational, and an important piece of the forgotten history of people's struggles for justice in the United States. Folsom has done an extraordinary ob of research, and he writes with great style." -Howard Zinn,author of A People's History of The United States "Gracefully written and assiduously researched." -Village Voice Literary Supplement "Lively and compelling." -Eric Foner,Columbia University "Will appeal to all interested in U.S. history ... a splendid example of 'history from the bottom up.'" -New York Review of Books