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The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century (Updated Edition) by Judith Sealander, Mike Meyers Paperback, 386 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-521-53568-9 / 0521535689 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-53568-7 / 9780521535687 Between 1900 and 2000 an unprecedented American effort to use state regulation to guarantee health, opportunity, and security to the country's children failed to reach its goals. The achievements envisioned were enormously ambitious and reflected entrenched but self-contradictory values and American |