LET THEM EAT PROMISES: The Politics of Hunger in America

by Nick Kotz ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 16, 1969

Journalist Kotz has played a crusading, role in catapulting hunger into the public spotlight and revealing the inadequacies of existing federal food programs since hunger was ""conceived as a national issue"" in April 1967 by Senators Robert Kennedy and Joseph Clark after an eye-opening visit to the Mississippi Delta. This factual but impassioned account traces the efforts of food aid reformers and the political foot-dragging and imperturbability in high places which have prevented any effective remedy thus far, despite President Nixon's bright promise to ""put an end to hunger in America itself for all time."" Kotz demands a change in national priorities and the traditional systems of government which impede social progress--""The institutions need reshaping when a great department of government (Agriculture) and a few congressional committees can conspire together for years to subordinate the needs of hungry people to the needs of commercial agriculture."" An informative chronicle that ends With disturbing, unanswered questions.

Pub Date: Jan. 16, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Prentice-Hall

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1969

Categories: NONFICTION