Social Security History

Professor Edward D. Berkowitz is the Chairman of the Department of History at George Washington University. He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on the history of the Social Security program. His books include:

• Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped Cambridge University Press. 1987.
• Social Security After Fifty: Successes and Failures, (ed.) Greenwood Press. 1987.
• America's Welfare State: From Roosevelt to Reagan, Johns Hopkins University Press. 1991
• Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth Century Reform, with Kim McQuaid. University of Kansas Press. 1992.
• Social Security and Medicare: A Policy Primer, with Eric Kingson, Auburn House. 1993
• Mr. Social Security: The Life of Wilbur J. Cohen, University of Kansas Press. 1995.
• To Improve Human Health: A History of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press. 1998.
• Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security, University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.