Triumph of ConservatismA radically new interpretation of the Progressive Era which argues that business leaders, and not the reformers, inspired the era’s legislation regarding business. |
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User Review - keylawk - LibraryThingGabriel Kolko is a liberal historian whose scholarship prevails over ideology. Now deceased, in 2014 at age 81, he wrote "Railroads and Regulation" (1965), on the early history of the Interstate ... Read full review
Contents
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| 11 | |
The Failure to Rationalize Industry | 26 |
THREE Theodore Roosevelt and the Foundations | 57 |
FOUR Roosevelt As Reformer 19041906 | 79 |
SEVEN The Ordeal of William Howard Taft 19091911 | 159 |
EIGHT The Politics of 1912 | 190 |
NINE Woodrow Wilson and the Triumph | 217 |
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| Title | Triumph of Conservatism |
| Author | Gabriel Kolko |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1439118728, 9781439118726 |
| Length | 356 pages |
| Subjects | › Political Science / General |
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