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Government has amassed huge amounts of money, then used some of it to relieve the worst affects of poverty. Some programs are dedicated to make people less likely to be poor. Others to making being poor less dangerous and degrading. Notably with the new deal and the great society, putting the federal government at the heart of programs to aid the poor set off big philosophical and practical debates. When washington sets the goals and makes the rules and disburses the money, does it deliver help where and when needed. For a long time republicans like representative ryan of wisconsin have answer...

know, he satirized all the custom house cohorts and told that he had been fired in no uncertain terms, so the first part of the book created kind of scandal that's not scandalous to us anymore today, and then, of course, the second part of the book seems shocking, it's a novel about adultery. how dare you. c-span: we are out of time. this cover is what? >> guest: that is a wonderful portrait of nathaniel hawthorne that actually hangs in a club in new york city. and it was taken -- it was done of him when he was about 46 years old. (unintelligible). c-span: brenda wineapple, our guest...