The Public Library in the United States; The General Report of the Public Library Inquiry. By Robert D. Leigh. (New York: Columbia University Press. 1950. Pp. xi, 272. $3.75.)
Sally Cohen has written an important and comprehensive analysis of child-care policy in the United States, challenging the conventional wisdom that no such federal policy exists and that child care is not a major government priority, in contrast to other democratic welfare states (e.g., the Scandinavian countries and France).
