Martin Anderson

Martin Anderson (August 5, 1936 – January 3, 2015) As the book was published with the support of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T and Harvard, it was thought it would be an objective study. Rather, some saw the volume as a strongly partisan account and an unbalanced tirade against the federal program as a whole. Amongst a topic with charged opinions, when someone suggests the modification or elimination of a government initiative, as Anderson did, it is often met with a strong responses, which quickly became the case. Anderson's strong claims supported by unqualified and fragile evidence generated a hostile reaction among academics to The Federal Bulldozer.