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Amity Shlaes To Shapiro: The ‘Good Parts’ Of The Great Society Didn’t Cost Much Money

Eric Quintanar
Amity Shlaes To Shapiro: The ‘Good Parts’ Of The Great Society Didn’t Cost Much Money
The Daily Wire

On this week’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show: Sunday Special,” Amity Shlaes, author of “The Great Society: A New History,” sat down with The Daily Wire editor-in-chief to talk about where President Lyndon Johnson’s domestic legislation went right, and where it went wrong. 

During the conversation, Shapiro remarks that in the 1960’s there was a belief that “if we just engage in massive government redistributionist schemes and major government involvement,” poverty can be cured. 

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