Kennedy's Recruit: Tales from the Poverty Wars

“Kennedy’s Recruit” is the vivid account of the great federal anti-poverty effort that sparked the social wildfires of the Sixties and Seventies across America, told by a man who was there and saw it first-hand – and the political storms it brewed, from the migrant camps of California and Southern New Jersey to the haunted poverty of the Dakota Sioux reservations; from the truck coal mines of eastern Tennessee to Dick Daley’s Chicago and Louise Day Hicks’s Boston.
Joe Wilkins is a lawyer and prize-winning columnist who worked across the country in the first years of the Poverty Wars for the Office of Economic Opportunity, then ran a Community Action Agency and served as Chief Attorney of a Legal Services program in Southern New Jersey.