American heroine : the life and legend of Jane Addams / Allen F. Davis ; with a new introd. by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Allen Freeman, 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.

Addams, Jane.

Women social workers--United States--Biography.

Women social workers.

Women social reformers--United States--Biography.

Women social reformers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Ivan Dee, [2000]

Summary:

Books about Jane Addams -- founder of Hull House, social reformer, suffragist, pacifist, and one of the most greatly admired women in American history -- come and go, but Allen Davis's account of her life, work, and ideas remains the standard biography. "A distinguished work of scholarship, mature, incisive.... Davis has written not only the best study of Jane Addams but perhaps the best biography of any great American woman". -- William L. O'Neill.

Contents:

I. Formative Years 3

II. Despair and Disillusionment 24

III. A Creative Solution 38

IV. Founding a Social Movement 52

V. Early Years at Hull House 67

VI. A Wider Influence 92

VII. Jane Addams

Reformer 110

VIII. A Moral Equivalent for War and Juvenile Delinquency 135

IX. Twenty Years at Hull House 157

X. Prostitution, Woman Suffrage, and Progressivism 176

XI. Practical Saint and the Most Useful American 198

XII. A Pacifiist in Time of War 212

XIII. From Saint to Villain 232

XIV. The Most Dangerous Woman in America 251

XV. The Restoration of a Saint 282.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, c1973.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-296) and index.

ISBN:

156663296X

OCLC:

42866173