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PhD History University of California, Berkeley
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Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Edward D. Berkowitz is a professor of history at George Washington University. 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.

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Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped. (1988) (85)
America's Welfare State: From Roosevelt to Reagan (1992) (82)
Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies (2005) (56)
Disabled policy : America's programs for the handicapped (1988) (54)
Politics as Process@@@Quiet Revolution: The Struggle for the Democratic Party and the Shaping of Post-Reform Politics. (1984) (53)
Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth Century Reform. (1982) (50)
"That's Not What We Meant to Do": Reform and Its Unintended Consequences in Twentieth-Century America (2000) (42)
Creating the welfare state: The political economy of twentieth-century reform (1990) (40)
Disability policies and government programs (1979) (38)
Creating The Welfare State (1980) (36)
The Carter Presidency: Policy Choices in the Post-New Deal Era. (1999) (33)
From Warfare State to Welfare State: World War I, Compensatory State Building, and the Limits of the Modern Order (2001) (32)
Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s (2005) (27)
Businessman and Bureaucrat: The Evolution of the American Social Welfare System, 1900–1940 (1978) (25)
Medicare and Medicaid: The Past as Prologue (2005) (24)
Mr. Social Security: The Life of Wilbur J. Cohen (1995) (22)
The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy (2013) (20)
Old Age in the New Land: The American Experience Since 1970 W. Andrew Achenbaum A History of Retirement: The Meaning and Function of an American Institution William Graebner (1983) (20)
Disabled Policy (1992) (19)
Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security (2003) (18)
The wounded soldiers of industry (1983) (17)
The politics of mental retardation during the Kennedy Administration. (1980) (16)
America's Welfare State: From Roosevelt to Reagan. (1992) (16)
Social Security: A Documentary History (2007) (16)
Rehabilitation : the Federal Government's response to disability, 1935-1954 (1980) (15)
The Survival of Workers' Compensation (1984) (14)
Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal (1996) (14)
To Improve Human Health: A History of the Institute of Medicine (1999) (13)
The federal government and the emergence of rehabilitation medicine. (1981) (12)
One Comprehensive System? A Historical Perspective on Federal Disability Policy (1990) (10)
Rehabilitation in the Work Injury Program. (1991) (9)
Domestic politics and international expertise in the history of American disability policy. (1989) (9)
The Frontier Thesis (1996) (9)
The Scenic Road to Nowhere: Reflections on the History of National Health Insurance in the United States (2010) (9)
A Historical Preface to the Americans with Disabilities Act (1994) (8)
The Other Welfare (2013) (7)
Group Health Association: A Portrait of a Health Maintenance Organization. (1989) (7)
Social Security After Fifty: Successes and Failures (1987) (6)
The Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture. By Roland Végső. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. 245p. $85 cloth, $24 paper. (2014) (6)
Welfare Reform in the 1950s (1980) (6)
Reactions to the Best and Worst Application of History Awards (1996) (5)
Medicare and Medicaid: The Past as Prologue (2008) (5)
Widening the Field (1985) (5)
The Politics of Social Security Expansion: Social Security Disability Insurance, 1935–1986 (1989) (5)
Disability insurance and the limits of American history. (1986) (5)
The Disabled State. By Deborah A. Stone (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984. xii + 241 pp.) (1986) (5)
: Public Policy toward Disabled Workers: Cross-national Analyses of Economic Impact (1986) (5)
History, Public Policy and Reality (1984) (4)
How to think about the welfare state (1991) (4)
The historian as policy analyst: the challenge of HEW. (1979) (4)
The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation (review) (2002) (4)
Social Security from the New Deal to the Great Society: Expanding the Public Domain (2009) (4)
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974: A Political History (2005) (4)
Getting to the Affordable Care Act (2017) (4)
Martha Derthick and the Art of Policy History: A Scholarly Appreciation (2015) (3)
Professionals as providers: Some thoughts on disability and ideology. (1984) (3)
Revealing America's Welfare State (1998) (3)
The Medical Follow-up Agency: The First Fifty Years 1946–1996 (1999) (3)
Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s, the Golden Age of Paranoia. By Francis Wheen. (New York: Public Affairs, 2009. 344 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-1-58648-845-1.) (2010) (2)
Regulating a New Society: Public Policy and Social Change in America, 1900–1933. By Morton Keller (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994. xi plus 396pp. $49.95) (1995) (2)
Mass Appeal: The Formative Age of the Movies, Radio, and TV (2010) (2)
Public History, Academic History, and Policy Analysis: A Case Study with Commentary (1988) (2)
Bureaucrats as “Social Engineers”: Federal Welfare Programs in Herbert Hoover's America (1980) (2)
Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform. (1977) (2)
Making Social Welfare Policy in America (2020) (2)
Allocating resources for rehabilitation: a historical and ethical framework. (1989) (2)
America's War on Poverty. Prod. by Henry Hampton and Terry Kay Rockefeller, 1995. Five hrs. (PBS Video, 1320BraddockPI., Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) (1995) (2)
The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in U.S. History (2013) (2)
The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs (2019) (2)
History of Health Services Research ProjectInterview with Avedis Donabedian (2003) (2)
The War on Poverty Research (2002) (2)
Ernest R. May (2010) (1)
Wilbur Cohen and American social reform. (1989) (1)
Politics and Professors Henry J. Aaron (1979) (1)
SOCIAL INSURANCE FOR THE DISABLED AND ELDERLY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (1988) (1)
Shades of Gray: Old Age, American Values, and Federal Policies Since 1920. By Andrew Achenbaum (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983 xv + 216 pp.) (1984) (1)
To improve human health (1998) (1)
Social Security or Insecurity? (1996) (1)
Welfare Reform as History (1998) (1)
Revealing America's welfare state. [Review of: Howard, C., The hidden welfare state: tax expenditures and social policy in the United States. Princeton University Press, 1997]. (1998) (1)
Mass Appeal: Introduction (2010) (1)
Book Review: The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 edited by RONALD LAWSON AND MARK NAISON New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 1986. pp.289. $35.00 H/B; $15.00 P/B (1987) (1)
Creating the Agency (1999) (1)
AIDS: The Burden of History. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1988. ix plus 362 pp.) (1990) (1)
Dying for Work: Workers Safety and Health in Twentieth Century America. Edited by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1987. xx plus 234 pp. $35.00) (1988) (1)
The Social Welfare History State@@@Poverty and Society: The Growth of the American Welfare State in International Comparison.@@@From Charity to Enterprise: The Development of American Social Work in a Market Economy.@@@The Politics of Social Policy in the United States. (1990) (1)
Welfare as We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State Charles Noble (1998) (0)
Research and politics in policymaking for Social Security. (1997) (0)
Expansion of the Institute of Medicine (1998) (0)
3. Launching the Program: Why the Program Began Badly (2017) (0)
Making Social Welfare Policy in America: Three Case Studies since 1950 (2020) (0)
Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman. By Alonzo L. Hamby. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xvi, 760 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-504546-7.) (1996) (0)
4. The Emergence of a Disability Program: How the Program’s Fundamental Identity Changed (2017) (0)
One Nation Under AARP: The Fight Over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future by Frederick Lynch (2012) (0)
Chapter Two. What Happened to the Disability Program and How Policy Makers Tried to Respond (2020) (0)
Mass Appeal: From the Thirties to the Forties with Kate, Bud, and Lou (2010) (0)
Chapter Six. The Welfare Reform Debate from JFK to Reagan (2020) (0)
Hugh Richard Slotten. Radio's Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States. (The History of Communication.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2009. Pp. viii, 325. $50.00 (2011) (0)
The Roosevelt New Deal: A Program Assessment Fifty Years after Wilbur J. Cohen The Great Society and Its Legacy: Twenty Years of Social Policy Marshall Kaplan Peggy Cuciti (1987) (0)
Inventing Equal Opportunity (review) (2010) (0)
The Medical Follow-up Agency (1999) (0)
Mass Appeal: The End of an Era? (2010) (0)
Book Review: Historical Studies: Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society (2002) (0)
The Welfare Industry David Street George T. Martin Jr. Laura Kramer Gordon Policymaking for Social Security Martha Derthick (1980) (0)
Feeble-Minded in our Midst: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900–1940. By Steven Noll (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xiii plus 254pp. $39.95/hardcover $16.95/paperback) (1997) (0)
Chapter Four. The Consequences of Medicare from Accommodation to Regulation (2020) (0)
Labor Force Participation among Disabled Persons. Background Paper No. 23. (1989) (0)
Post-1996 Developments (2013) (0)
The American version of the Welfare State (1996) (0)
The Emergence of a Disability Program (2013) (0)
Scott Kaufman. Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford. (2018) (0)
Mary E. Switzer: The Entrepreneur Within the Federal Bureaucracy (1980) (0)
The transformation of Social Security: opening address (1997) (0)
Fred Robbins and the Sproull Report (1998) (0)
1. Creating a New Welfare Program: The Politics of Welfare and Social Security Reform in the Nixon Administration (2017) (0)
Social Security after Fifty Years: Successes and Failures. (1989) (0)
The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925. By Elisabeth S. Clemens ( Chicago , University of Chicago Press , 1997 ) 458 pp. $58.00 cloth $19.95 paper (1998) (0)
Mass Appeal: Sound Comes In, Vaudeville and Silent Pictures Go Out (2010) (0)
Mass Appeal: The Postwar Movie Scene (2010) (0)
The Institute of Medicine at Twenty Five (1998) (0)
The frontier thesis. [Review of: Achenbaum WA. Crossing frontiers: gerontology emerges as a science. Cambridge University Press, 1995]. (1996) (0)
History Precedes Ethics (2001) (0)
The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture. By James T. Patterson (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. xii plus 380 pp. $25.95) (1988) (0)
8. HISTORY (2011) (0)
The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State. By Jill Quadagno · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xiii + 253 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 (1989) (0)
Mass Appeal: Putting It Together: Walt Disney Introduces the Baby Boom to Television (2010) (0)
Mass Appeal: Radio Nights (2010) (0)
The Early Committee Years (1999) (0)
5. The Continuing Disability Reviews: How the Politics of Controversy Hindered the Program (2017) (0)
Mass Appeal: Acknowledgments (2010) (0)
Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America (review) (2006) (0)
Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State (review) (2000) (0)
Readers' Comments (1967) (0)
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. By James H. Jones (New York: The Free Press, 1981. xiii + 272 pp. $7.95) (1983) (0)
Contributors (1991) (0)
Karen M. Tani . States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935–1972 . (2016) (0)
The Institute of Medicine and AIDS (1998) (0)
Mass Appeal: From Broadway to Hollywood with Groucho, Fred, and Ginger (2010) (0)
Welfare Politics in Boston, 1910–1940. By Susan Traverso. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. xviii, 164 pp. $34.95, isbn 1-55849-378-6.) (2004) (0)
The Courts and Other Sources of Program Growth (2013) (0)
Chapter One. Congress Passes a Law, the Labor Movement Unites, and Walter George Retires (2020) (0)
Emergent Maladies: Occupation and Disease . How Social Factors Affect the Conception of Work-Related Disorders. Allard E. Dembe. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1996. xiv, 344 pp., illus. $37.50 or £25. (1996) (0)
Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal. By David L. Stebenne. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. x, 539 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-507105-0.) (1997) (0)
Book Review: Labor Organizations: Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform (1977) (0)
Stakeholders in misfortune. (1992) (0)
The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy. By Brian Steensland. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xvi, 304 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-12714-9.) (2008) (0)
Mass Appeal: Notes (2010) (0)
10. Health Care (2011) (0)
Chapter Seven. Clinton, Gingrich, and Welfare Reform in 1996 (2020) (0)
Author's Acknowledgments (1998) (0)
Launching the Program (2013) (0)
A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton. By John Jacobs. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xxviii, 578 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-520-20076-4.) (1996) (0)
Mass Appeal: Bogie, Bob, and the Boys at War (2010) (0)
Social Welfare History in the Age of Diversity (2021) (0)
Medical Follow-up Agency Publication List, 1946–1996 (1999) (0)
The Institute of Medicine Begins Operations (1998) (0)
Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America. By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz (Princeton: New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991. xiii plus 229 pp. $29.95) (1992) (0)
Extensive but Not Inclusive: Health Care and Pensions in the United States (2008) (0)
The Continuing Disability Reviews (2013) (0)
Deaf History Unveiled: Interpretations from the New Scholarship. By John Vickrey Van Cleve (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1993. xii plus 301pp.) (1995) (0)
Social Perceptions of People with Disabilities in History (review) (1999) (0)
The Leviathan and Its Detractors (2016) (0)
The New Disability History: American Perspectives (review) (2002) (0)
The Birth of a Transfer Society . By Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989. Pp. xv, 114. $9.75, paper. (1990) (0)
Book Review: Income Security, Insurance, and Benefits: The Wounded Soldiers of Industry (1986) (0)
Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, 2013* (0)
6. The Courts and Other Sources of Program Growth: How the Program Expanded in a Conservative Age (2017) (0)
The Welfare Reform of 1996 (2013) (0)
Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the Ger- man Democratic Republic. By Donna Harsch (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xviii plus 350 pp. $29.95). (2010) (0)
Creating a New Welfare Program (2013) (0)
The Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940 (review) (2005) (0)
7. The Welfare Reform of 1996: How the Program Became Swept Up in the Narrative of Welfare Fraud and Abuse (2017) (0)
Michael B. Katz. The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare. New York: Pantheon. 1989. Pp. ix, 293. $15.95 (1994) (0)
Incentives for Reducing the Costs of Disability (2019) (0)
Legacies of the War on Poverty (2014) (0)
Historians as Analysts and Advocates: Disability Policy@@@Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped.@@@Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle Over Black Lung Disease. (1989) (0)
Social Democratic America. By Lane Kenworthy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 238p. $27.95 cloth, 19.95 paper. (2017) (0)
Matthew C. Ehrlich. Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest. (2012) (0)
Creating the Institute of Medicine (1998) (0)
The Death of Jane Addams (2019) (0)
The Hamburg Era (1998) (0)
8. Post- 1996 Developments: A Brief Postscript (2017) (0)
Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race: How Keynesians Misguided the War on Poverty by Judith Russell (2004) (0)
The Great Society Gets Needed Attention (1996) (0)
A Year in Transition (2013) (0)
American Choices: Social Dilemmas and Public Policy since 1960. Edited by Robert H. Bremner, Gary W. Reichard, and Richard J. Hopkins. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1986. xii + 272 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $30.00.) (1987) (0)
Review of Krainz, Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West. (2007) (0)
2. A Year in Transition: Why Planning for the New Program Became Difficult (2017) (0)
Mass Appeal: Make Room for TV (2010) (0)
New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration (review) (2000) (0)

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