Cogan, John F., <br/><br/>
The high cost of good intentions :  a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs / 
John F. Cogan. 
 - xii, 500 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-477) and index. 
<br/><br/>Creating legislative precedents : Revolutionary War pensions -- An experiment with government trust funds : Navy pensions -- The first great entitlement : Civil War pensions -- Repeating past mistakes : World War I veterans benefits -- Retrenchment : Roosevelt and the veterans -- The birth of the modern entitlement state -- The consequences of social security surpluses -- A new kind of entitlement : the G.I. Bill -- Setting the post-war entitlement agenda : 1946/1950 -- 1951/1964 : establishing social insurance dominance -- The beginning of the great turn in welfare policy : 1951/1964 -- The first Great Society -- A legal right to welfare -- The second Great Society -- First inklings of fiscal limits : 1975/1980 -- A temporary slowdown : 1981/1989 -- Recognition and denial : 1989/2014 -- A challenge unlike any in U.S. history. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781503603547 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017009793 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Entitlement spending--History.--United States<br/>Public welfare--History.--United States<br/>Social security--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HJ7543  / .C64 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>361.60973