The Age of ReformWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. This book is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results. The Age of Reform searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise. |
Contents
The Agrarian Myth and Commercial I | 23 |
THE FARMER AND THE REALITIES | 36 |
THE FRONTIER OR THE MARKET? | 46 |
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