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. |
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User Review - mdobe - LibraryThingLove him or hate him, you just can't get around him. Hofstadter takes up a strong (and contested) position on the Populists, as already addressed in Week 2. He argues more extensively in this chapter ... Read full review
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User Review - mdobe - LibraryThingLove him or hate him, you just can't get around him. Hofstadter takes up a strong (and contested) position on the Populists, as already addressed in Week 2. He argues more extensively in this chapter ... Read full review
Contents
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The Agrarian Myth and Commercial | 23 |
THE FARMER AND THE REALITIEs | 36 |
THE FRONTIER OF THE MARKETP | 46 |
The Folklore of Populism | 60 |
From Pathos to Parity | 94 |
rv The Status Revolution and Progressive | 131 |
THE ALIENATION OF | 148 |
FROM THE MUGwu MP To | 164 |
The Progressive Impulse | 174 |
JoURNALISM | 186 |
REALITY AND RESPONSIBILITY | 198 |
v1 The Struggle over Organization | 215 |
vu From Progressivism to the New Deal | 272 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 329 |
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