The refuge of affections : family and American reform politics, 1900-1920 /
The Progressives-those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research-have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, ©2001. |
| Series: | Columbia studies in contemporary American history.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | The Progressives-those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research-have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that like most of us, the reformers took their inspiration from their own lives-from the challenges of forming a family. Following the lives and careers of Charles and Mary Beard, Wesley Clair and Lucy Sprague Mitchell, and Willard and Dorothy Straight, the book moves from the plains of. The Progressives - those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research - have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that like most of us, the reformers took their inspiration from their own lives - from the challenges of forming a family. |
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| Item Description: | Print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231121466 0231121474 0231506163 9780231121460 9780231121477 9780231506168 |