This 1986 book encourages lawmakers, academic experts, and general readers to think more broadly and boldly about social security.

A leading public-health expert brings to light the shocking conditions in America's nursing homes today and pinpoints the tragic mistakes in public policy that have contributed toward producing these conditions.

A leading public-health expert brings to light the shocking conditions in America's nursing homes today and pinpoints the tragic mistakes in public policy that have contributed toward producing these conditions.

A leading public-health expert brings to light the shocking conditions in America's nursing homes today and pinpoints the tragic mistakes in public policy that have contributed toward producing these conditions.

"A Twentieth Century Fund study."Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. [257]-302. 'Thernstrom maneuvers successfully between the civil rights ideology and the requirements of democratic politics.