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Edward D. Berkowitz is a professor of history at
George Washington University .
[1]
A graduate of
Princeton University , Berkowitz received his master's and doctoral degrees in American history from
Northwestern University . His area of special expertise is the history of
Social Security and related social policies.
[2]
Before moving to George Washington in 1982, he served as the first John F. Kennedy Fellow at the
University of Massachusetts Boston and as a senior staff member of the President's
Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties .
[3]
He has consulted on various aspects of social welfare policy with such organizations as the
Milbank Memorial Fund ,
The Century Foundation , the
Committee for Economic Development , the
Hastings Center , and the
Health Insurance Association of America .
[4]
He is the author of more than 70 articles on various aspects of social welfare policy.
He is the son of former
Rutgers University professor
Monroe Berkowitz (1919–2009).
Making Social Welfare Policy in America: Three Case Studies since 1950 , University of Chicago Press, 2020.
ISBN: 9780226692067
"Review: Commissioning the Future, Getting the Present" , Reviews in American History , Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jun., 1983), pp. 294–299
Something Happened : A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies , Columbia University Press, 2006,
ISBN
978-0-231-12494-2
Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped , Cambridge University Press, 1989,
ISBN
978-0-521-38930-3
America's Welfare State: From Roosevelt to Reagan , Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991,
ISBN
978-0-8018-4128-6
Mr. Social Security: The Life of Wilbur J. Cohen , University Press of Kansas, 1995,
ISBN
978-0-7006-0707-5
To Improve Human Health: A History of the Institute of Medicine , National Academies Press, 1998,
ISBN
978-0-309-06188-9
Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security , University of Wisconsin Press, 2005,
ISBN
978-0-299-18954-9
Creating the welfare state: the political economy of twentieth-century reform , Authors Edward D. Berkowitz, Kim McQuaid, University Press of Kansas, 1992,
ISBN
9780700605286
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