One nation under AARP : the fight over medicare, social security, and America's future /

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Author / Creator:Lynch, Frederick R.
Imprint:Berkeley, Calif. ; London, England : University of California Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (x, 275 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11256447
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ISBN:9780520948907
0520948904
9780520256538
0520256530
9780520268289
0520268288
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-261) and index.
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Summary:This book provides a fresh and even-handed account of the newly modernized AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons)--the 40-million member insurance giant and political lobby that continues to set the national agenda for Medicare and Social Security. Frederick R. Lynch addresses AARP's courtship of 78 million aging baby boomers and the possibility of harnessing what may be the largest ever senior voting bloc to defend threatened cutbacks to Social Security, Medicare, and under-funded pension systems. Based on years of research, interviews with key strategists, and analyses of.
Other form:Print version: Lynch, Frederick R. One nation under AARP. Berkeley, Calif. ; London, England : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520256538