The Carnegie Corporation, among this country's oldest and most important foundations, has underwritten projects ranging from the writings of David Riesman to Sesame Street. Lagemann's lively history focuses on how foundations quietly but effectively use power and private money to influence public policies.
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Langemann's history of the Carnegie Cor poration from 1911 to 1982 documents changing social, political, and economic influences on the foundation's liberal ide ology. The author reveals the basic dilem ma underlying the philanthrophic "poli tics of knowledge": a tension between the foundation's "mission"--its ideological goals--and its "market"--the targeted benefactors. Libraries, for example, were established on the assumption that they benefited many, but the actual cultural benefits were difficult to prove. Thor oughly researched, this book features several appendixes and a bibliographic es say. Any library selecting this book should also have the author's Private Power for the Public Good (LJ 6/15/83) and Gerald Jonas's The Circuit Riders: Rockefeller Money and the Rise of Mod ern Science (LJ 4/15/89).
-Gregg Sapp, Montana State Univ. Lib., Bozeman
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
-Gregg Sapp, Montana State Univ. Lib., Bozeman
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Ellen Condliffe Lagemann is professor of history and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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ANDREW CARNEGIE WAS seventy-six years old and weary of philanthropy by the time he established the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1911. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strategic philanthropy, cultural philanthropy, scientific philanthropy, adult education projects, associative state, first restatement, comprehensive high school Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Carnegie Corporation, United States, New York, Charles Dollard, University of Chicago, Elihu Root, Sesame Street, Carnegie Foundation, John Dollard, Ford Foundation, Henry Pritchett, First World War, John Gardner, Rockefeller Foundation, Second World War, Alan Pifer, Columbia University, Frederick Osborn, Research Branch, Great Britain, Carnegie Council, Flexner Report, Frederick Keppel, Russell Sage Foundation, Andrew Carnegie New!
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ANDREW CARNEGIE WAS seventy-six years old and weary of philanthropy by the time he established the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1911. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strategic philanthropy, cultural philanthropy, scientific philanthropy, adult education projects, associative state, first restatement, comprehensive high school Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Carnegie Corporation, United States, New York, Charles Dollard, University of Chicago, Elihu Root, Sesame Street, Carnegie Foundation, John Dollard, Ford Foundation, Henry Pritchett, First World War, John Gardner, Rockefeller Foundation, Second World War, Alan Pifer, Columbia University, Frederick Osborn, Research Branch, Great Britain, Carnegie Council, Flexner Report, Frederick Keppel, Russell Sage Foundation, Andrew Carnegie New!
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