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In an invitingly short and clearly laid-out book... [Peter Eisinger] provides a cogent analysis of twentieth century U.S. food policy and programming, and the results. --Laura Lein, University of Texas, Austin, Contemporary Sociology, 5/1/2000 ...Eisinger's political history of a variety of hunger programs and his characterization of U.S. government food assistance [were] very useful. --Seth Osborne DaPonte, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science, 7/1/2000 ...provides the most comprehensive treatment of evolving governmental and nongovernmental food assistance programs to date. --Maurice MacDonald, Iowa State University

In an invitingly short and clearly laid-out book... [Peter Eisinger] provides a cogent analysis of twentieth century U.S. food policy and programming, and the results. -Laura Lein, University of Texas, Austin, Contemporary Sociology, 5/1/2000 | ...Eisinger's political history of a variety of hunger programs and his characterization of U.S. government food assistance [were] very useful. -Seth Osborne DaPonte, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science, 7/1/2000 | ...provides the most comprehensive treatment of evolving governmental and nongovernmental food assistance programs to date. -Maurice MacDonald, Iowa State University

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Peter K. Eisinger is a professor in the College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs and director of the State Policy Center at Wayne State University. He was formerly on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was director of the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs.

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