Chapter III : The Failure Of Reform, p. 55
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Thus we have the spectacle, still to be seen today, of the western rancher who accepts federal aid for his cattle operations and federal aid for his grazing requirements, but bitterly opposes all social programs that do not concern him, and the philosophy that lies behind them.
— Charles A. Reich
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About Charles A. Reich
Charles Alan Reich (20 May 1928 – 15 June 2019) was an American legal and social scholar and a Professor at Yale Law School famous as the author of the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America.
About Charles A. Reich
Charles Alan Reich (20 May 1928 – 15 June 2019) was an American legal and social scholar and a Professor at Yale Law School famous as the author of the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America.
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