Equality of Opportunity: A Century of Debate

by David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd

For over one hundred years, Americans have debated what equality of opportunity means and the role of government in ensuring it. Are we born with equality of opportunity, and must we thus preserve our innate legal and political freedoms? Or must it be created through laws and policies that smooth out social or economic inequalities? David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd trace the debate as it has evolved from America's founding into the twentieth century,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817925848
• ISBN13: 9780817925840
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"