Nancy Hanks, an Intimate Portrait: The Creation of a National Commitment to the Arts

by Michael Whitney Straight

Nancy Hanks, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from 1969 to 1977, turned this fledgling organization into a major instrument for government support of the arts--accomplishing thereby a virtual revolution in the public arts policy of the United States. She died of cancer on January 7, 1983; later that year, at the request of Congress, President Ronald Reagan designated the building complex at Pennsylvania Avenue and 11th Street...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082230869X
• ISBN13: 9780822308690
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.6"