The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914. By Michael H. Hunt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. xii, 416 pp. Notes, Bibliographical Essays, Index. $27.50.
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).