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INSECURITY: A CHALLENGE TO AMERICA
by Abraham Epstein
The publication of Abraham Epstein: The Forgotten Father of Social Security (University of Missouri Press, 2007), a memoir and biography by his son Pierre, has once again called attention to Epstein’s magnum opus, Insecurity: A Challenge to America, a major work essential to understanding the development of social security in the United States. This edition, first published in 1938 and then reprinted in 1968 with a special foreword by former senator Paul Douglas of Illinois, includes Epstein’s extensive critique of the original Social Security Act of 1935, which still resonates today when the entire system of social security is undergoing intensive examination and analysis.
5 ½" x 8 ½"; xxx + 940 pages; cloth $98.00
ISBN-13: 978 087586-005-3
ISBN-10: 0-87586-005-2“Abe Epstein did more in my judgment to initiate social security than any other man of his generation, and he also labored mightily to improve the structure of the system which was finally set up. . . . He still has things to tell us and it is well for us still to listen to him.” --from the Foreword by Paul Douglas.