social policy

"When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policyin 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers.--Amazon.com.

Argues that federal, state, and local governments can and should do something to alleviate poverty and inequality.

Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto, in which, she traces the country's struggle to embrace democracy and she speaks out against fear, timidity, complacency, and national arrogance.

Proposes that Texas is the origin of the national agenda, and takes a humorous walk through the political landscape of Texas from states' rights to bank deregulation, and more that is incomprehensible to the non-Texan, and describes some of the colorful and influential politicians who originated in Texas.