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The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush
Iwan Morgan
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Description for The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush
Hardcover. Over the past thirty-two years - from the presidency of Jimmy Carter through that of George W Bush - the US government has in fact balanced its budget in only four of them, while the fiscal challenges confronting President Obama make a balanced budget anytime soon a remote possibility. This book provides a historical perspective on this issue. Num Pages: 400 pages, 35 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 712.
The debate over the federal budget - and the deficit spending it tends to produce - has assumed a renewed urgency for reasons that are painfully clear to all of us. Over the past thirty-two years - from the presidency of Jimmy Carter through that of George W. Bush - the U.S. government has in fact balanced its budget in only four of them, while the fiscal challenges confronting President Obama make a balanced budget anytime soon a remote possibility. Iwan Morgan's book provides a much-needed historical perspective on this perennially troubling issue. The prominent role of Congress notwithstanding, Morgan ... Read more
The debate over the federal budget - and the deficit spending it tends to produce - has assumed a renewed urgency for reasons that are painfully clear to all of us. Over the past thirty-two years - from the presidency of Jimmy Carter through that of George W. Bush - the U.S. government has in fact balanced its budget in only four of them, while the fiscal challenges confronting President Obama make a balanced budget anytime soon a remote possibility. Iwan Morgan's book provides a much-needed historical perspective on this perennially troubling issue. The prominent role of Congress notwithstanding, Morgan ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700616855
SKU
V9780700616855
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About Iwan Morgan
Iwan Morgan is professor of U.S. Studies and deputy director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London. His previous books include Eisenhower versus ""The Spenders,"" Deficit Government: Taxing and Spending in Modern America, and, most recently, Nixon.
Reviews for The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush
Exhaustively researched, elegantly written, and balanced, Morgan's remarkable study is a major scholarly contribution to our understanding of the presidency and of federal budget policy. Dennis Ippolito, author of Why Budgets Matter: Budget Policy and American Politics ""An important and impressive analysis of budgetary and fiscal politics since the Carter presidency that will stand for some time to come."" James ... Read more