Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
Storming Caesars Palace casts the War on Poverty in a new light to illustrate the "rich potential of a poor women's movement for economic justice." Orleck challenges "scholars and policymakers [to] rethink the conventional wisdom that the War on Poverty was a failure." Through "seeing and hearing from welfare mothers in all their complex, contradictory humanity," she hopes to unsettle existing ideas of effective anti-poverty strategies. Orleck is understandably troubled by the glacial pace of progress in the lives of poor people in America, concluding that "after a cacophonous, half-century debate about America's so-called underclass, few creative or genuinely new ideas have surfaced."
Publication Citation
32 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 1719 (2006).
Recommended Citation
Pindell, Ngai, "Community Economic Development Under Protest" (2005). Scholarly Works. 495.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/495