American Decades
An American Renaissance: A Strategy for the 1980s
Nonfiction work
By: Jack F. Kemp
Date: 1979
Source: Kemp, Jack F. An American Renaissance: A Strategy for the 1980s. New York: Harper & Row, 1979, 1–3, 5–7, 7–8, 9, 10, 10–11.
About the Author: Jack French Kemp (1935–), a California native, played professional football as a quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and the Buffalo Bills before entering politics. Kemp was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1970 as a Republican from Buffalo, New York. An unsuccessful aspirant for the 1988 G.O.P. presidential nomination, he was appointed by President George H.W. Bush (served 1989–1993) as his secretary of Housing and Urban Development. In 1996, Kemp ran on the unsuccessful Republican national ticket as Robert Dole's vice presidential running mate.
Introduction
Between 1947 to 1973, U.S. annual productivity and growth rates rose to...
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1970's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- Important Events in Business and the Economy, 1970–1979
- "Franchising's Troubled Dream World"
- "World Trade in the 1970s"
- "More Companies Hire Workers They Once Spurned—The Elderly"
- "The Surge of Public Employee Unionism"
- "The Post Freeze-Economic Stabilization Program"
- "H. Ross Perot: America's First Welfare Billionaire"
- "The Doctrine of Multinational Sell"
- "When Cities Turn to Private Firms for Help"
- Looking Out for Number One
- A Time for Truth
- "Labor Law Reform and Its Enemies"
- "Low Pay, Bossy Bosses Kill Kids' Enthusiasm for Food-Service Jobs"
- An American Renaissance: A Strategy for the 1980s
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
