A family affair: the black sheep of liberalism

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Notes

1 Daniel Matlin, On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2013).

2 James T. Patterson, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle over Black Family Life—from LBJ to Obama (New York: Basic Books 2010), 84.

3 Daniel Patrick Moynihan to Richard Nixon, 3 January 1969, in Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary, ed. Steven Weisman (New York: PublicAffairs 2010), 102.

4 Michael Harrington, ‘The welfare state and its neoconservative critics’, Dissent, Fall 1973, 435–54.