Suggested Readings  

Cazenave, Noel A. Impossible Democracy: The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2007.

Gillette, Michael L. Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Goldstein, Alyosha. Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action During the American Century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.

Greenberg, Polly. The Devil Has Slippery Shoes: A Biased Biography of the Child Development Group of Mississippi, A Story of Maximum Feasible Parent Participation. Washington, D.C.: Youth Policy Institute, 1990.

Harrington, Michael. The Other America. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

Liston, Robert A. Sargent Shriver: A Candid Portrait. New York: Farrar, Strauss, 1964.

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick. Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding: Community Action in the War on Poverty. New York: Free Press, 1972.

Orleck, Annelise, and Lisa Gayle Hazirjian. War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011.

Morone, James A. The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Naples, Nancy A. Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on Poverty. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2014.

Schryer, Stephen. Maximum Feasible Participation: American Literature and the War on Poverty. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.

Shesol, Jeff. Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a Decade. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

Stossel, Scott. Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2004.

Stricker, Frank. Why America Lost the War on Poverty – And How to Win It. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Zarefsky, David. “President Johnson’s War on Poverty: The Rhetoric of Three ‘Establishment’ Movements.” Communication Monographs 44 (1977): 352-373.

Zarefsky, David. President Johnson’s War on Poverty: Rhetoric and History. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005.

Audio-Visual Materials

PBS, American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver, produced by Bruce Orenstein. 83 minutes. Chicago Video Project, 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bNyfGcpA8Q.

The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and the Miller Center, The LBJ Telephone Tapes: Inside the Presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson. https://lbjtapes.org/.

PBS, “LBJ on the Economy: War on Poverty.” American Experience, October 31, 2011. https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-lbj-on-the-economy-war-on-poverty/.

JFK Library. “Remembering Sargent Shriver.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRfcRerpbqE.

Peace Corps. “Sargent Shriver Speaks in New York about the Role of Peace Corps—1965.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIh9O3j35IA.

Special Olympics. “Sargent Shriver Biography—A Pioneer with Special Olympics.”  https://resources.specialolympics.org/marketing-and-communications/photos-and-videos/special-olympics-video-resources/sargent-shriver-biography-a-pioneer-with-special-olympics

Online Resources

Bach, Wendy A. Mobilization and Poverty Law: Searching for Participatory Democracy Amid the Ashes of the War on Poverty. UTK Law Faculty Publications, 226, 2012. https://ir.law.utk.edu/utklaw_facpubs/226.

Boteach, Melissa, et al. “The War on Poverty: Then and Now.” Center for American Progress, 2014. https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/PovertyAnniversary.pdf.

McKee, Guian A. “Lyndon B. Johnson and the War on Poverty.” Rotunda, n.d., https://prde.upress.virginia.edu/content/WarOnPoverty2.

Shriver Peace Institute, https://www.sargentshriver.org/.