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Bonnie Lefkowitz. Community Health Centers: A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xii + 177 pp. (cloth, 978-0-8135-3911-9) $23.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8135-3912-6).
Much has been made of late about how the political and cultural wars of the 1960s have affected and, some would say, distorted the politics of the early twenty-first century. The War on Poverty and its attendant programs have been a central source of conflict and criticism from both the left and right. But, as Bonnie Lefkowitz makes clear in this important book, community health centers are one of the few institutions that were created during the 1960s that have not only survived but expanded and even won the support of the George W. Bush administration. Lefkowitz has not provided an analysis of the over nine hundred health centers that were established throughout the United States and several territories. Rather she has chosen to focus on five centers, and in doing so, she has placed...